| 单词 | malaria |
| 释义 | malaria —malarial, malarian, malarious, adj. /meuh lair"ee euh/, n. 1. Pathol. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells. 2. Archaic. unwholesome or poisonous air. [1730-40; < It, contr. of mala aria bad air] |
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