malaria
101malaria — UK [məˈleərɪə] / US [məˈlerɪə] noun [uncountable] a serious illness caused by being bitten by a mosquito, usually in a hot country …
102malaria — [məˈleəriə] noun [U] a serious illness that you can get in a hot country if you are bitten by a MOSQUITO …
103malaria — ma•lar•i•a [[t]məˈlɛər i ə[/t]] n. 1) pat any of a group of usu. intermittent or remittent diseases characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating and caused by a parasitic protozoan transferred to the human bloodstream by an anopheles… …
104malaria — /məˈlɛəriə / (say muh lairreeuh) noun 1. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, and characterised by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating; formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations, but now known to be caused by a …
105Malaria — Ma|la|ria, die; <italienisch> (eine tropische Infektionskrankheit) …
106malaria — A morbid condition of the body, formerly believed to be caused by inhalation of bad air coming off decaying vegetation in swamps and marshes, St. Louis v Galt, 179 Mo 8, 77 SW 876; now known as an infectious disease transmitted through the bite… …
107malaria — 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… …
108Airport Malaria — Malaria contracted in or near an airport, transmitted by mosquitos that have been carried by planes from malarial regions. Neither the transmission of insects nor airport malaria are new. According to a 2000 W.H.O. report, the first discovery of… …
109tertian malaria — malaria in which febrile paroxysms occur every third day, counting the day of occurrence as the first. Vivax malaria and ovale malaria often follow this pattern …
110airport malaria — malaria transmitted by air traffic when an infected mosquito is carried on an airplane …
