Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - malaria
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Malaria
malaria
noun Etymology: Italian, from mala aria bad air Date: 1740 1. archaic air infected with a noxious substance capable of causing disease; especially miasma 2. a. a human disease that is caused by sporozoan parasites (genus Plasmodium) in the red blood cells, is transmitted by the bite of anopheline mosquitoes, and is characterized by periodic attacks of chills and fever b. any of various diseases of birds and mammals caused by blood protozoans • ~l adjective • malarious adjective
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n. 1 an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium, introduced by the bite of a mosquito. 2 archaic an unwholesome atmosphere caused by the exhalations of marshes, to which this fever was formerly attributed. Derivatives malarial adj. malarian adj. malarious adj. Etymology: It. mal' aria bad air ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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малярия – bovine malaria – falciparum malaria – quartan malaria – tertian malaria – vivax malaria ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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Malaria is a serious disease carried by mosquitoes which causes periods of fever. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n a disease common in hot countries that is caused when an infected mosquito bites you - malarial adj (malarial fever) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1740, from It. mal'aria, from mala aria "bad air," from mala "bad" (fem. of malo) + aria "air." The mosquito-borne disease was once thought to have been caused by foul air in marshy districts. Replaced native ague. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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