Meaning of MALARIA
| Pronunciation: | | mu'lehreeu
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| | Definition: | | [n] an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever |
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| | See Also: | | ague, blackwater fever, chills and fever, jungle fever, protozoal infection | |
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| | Definition: | | Malaria
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ma*la"ri*a\, n. [It., contr. fr. malaaria bad air. See
{Malice}, and Air.]
1. Air infected with some noxious substance capable of
engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from
certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers;
miasma.
Note: The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be
a vegetable microbe or its spores, and by others to be
a very minute animal blood parasite (an infusorian).
2. (Med.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from
decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving
rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms
characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and
usually uniform intervals.
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| | Definition: | | A disease caused by a number of protozoan parasites from the genus Plasmodium and spread by female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. The four species of Plasmodium which cause malaria are P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and <EM>P. falciparum</EM>. The disease most commonly occurs in the tropics and subtropics, such as Central America, South America, Southeast Asia, the Caribbeans, the South Pacific Islands, and sub-Saharan Africa. Symptoms appear anywhere from a week to a month after the mosquito bite, and include high fever, shaking chills, sweats, headache, muscle aches, fatigue, anemia, and sometimes vomiting and coughing. If left untreated, symptoms progress to fluid in the lungs, liver failure, kidney failure, brain swelling, coma, and death. For more information, visit Malaria Fact Sheet. |
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| | Related Terms: | | acute articular rheumatism, African lethargy, afterdamp, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackdamp, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, breath, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, Chagres fever, chicken pox, chokedamp, cholera, cloud, coal gas, cowpox, damp, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dumdum fever, dysentery, effluvium, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, exhalation, exhaust, exhaust gas, famine fever, fetid air, firedamp, five-day fever, flatus, flu, fluid, frambesia, fume, German measles, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, Haverhill fever, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, mephitis, miasma, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, puff of smoke, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, reek, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, smoke, smudge, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, steam, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, vapor, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, volatile, water vapor, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster |
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