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Malaria logo #10101) Ague 2) Insalubrity 3) Swamp fever
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Malaria logo #10101) Anopheles transmission 2) Anopheles-borne disease 3) Bad air, literally 4) Blackwater fever 5) Central American danger 6) Chills and fever cause 7) Danger faced by Rough Riders 8) Disease spread by mosquitoes 9) Fever disease 10) Illness caused by plasmodia 11) Mosquito fever 12) Mosquito-bite disease
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Malaria logo #21671Malaria is an acute and sometimes chronic infectious disease due to the presence of protozoan parasites within red blood cells. These parasites are discharged through salivary ducts when the mosquito bites a person. The causative organism is transmitted through bites of infected female mosquitoes of the genus anopheles. Also may be transmitted by b...
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Malaria logo #21002• (n.) 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. • (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unheal...
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malaria logo #21160Credit: World Health Organization A tropical parasitic disease resulting from infection with one of four species of Plamodium protozoa. Transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito, malaria is characterized by fever and enlargement of the spleen. The parasite multiples in erythrocytes (red blood cells),...
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malaria logo #20973In humans, the set of diseases caused by infection by the protozoans Plasmodium vivax causing the tertian type, P. Malariae the quartan type and P. Falciparum the quotidian or irregular type of disease, the names referring to the frequency of fevers. The fevers occur when the merozoites are released from the erythrocytes. The organisms are transmit...
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malaria logo #21001(mә-lar´e-ә) a serious infectious disease seen in many warm regions of the world, caused by a protozoal infection; it is one of the world's leading causes of death, although the majority of patients recover. Malaria is caused by the protozoal parasite Plasmodium, which is carried by mosquitoes of the genus A...
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Malaria logo #22412A disease caused by a number of species of the protozoan Plasmodium. It is vectored by mosquitoes, w
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Malaria logo #10444A widespread disease caused by a parasite in the blood (Malaria literally means bad air) - There are several parasites that cause the illness and hence several forms of malaria. All are Plasmodium species and the usual species are P falciparum, P vivax, P ovale and P malariae but there are others and it is possible to be infected by more than one a … ...
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malaria logo #10444(Learning Modules / Biology / DNA / Glossary) Infectious disease common in the tropics, transmitted by mosquitoes. Causes recurrent bouts of fever and can cause anaemia and fatal convulsions.
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malaria logo #10444In humans, the set of diseases caused by infection by protozoans of the genus Plasmodium > Plasmodium. P. vivax causes the tertian type, P. malariae the quartan type and P. falciparum the quotidian or irregular type of disease, the names referring to the frequency of fevers. The fevers occur when the merozoites are released from the erythrocytes. The organisms are transmitted by species of the Anopheles > Anopheles mosquito. ...
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Malaria logo #20972Ma·la'ri·a noun [ Italian , contr. from 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. » The morbific ag...
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Malaria logo #21217Malaria also known as paludism (ague or miasma) is an intermittent and remittent fever caused by the micro-organism Pasmodium and transmitted by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito.
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malaria logo #21009malaria (bad air) Malaria, a reference to the 'bad air' (mala aria) around swamps which was believed by the Romans to cause the same kinds of debilitating diseases which still exist in our modern world.
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Malaria logo #23722An infectious disease caused by a parasite (plasmodium) that is transmitted from human to human by the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Malaria logo #24000a disease caused by protozoan parasites.
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malaria logo #23421[Treasure Island] an infectious disease transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito; while malaria and yellow fever are two different diseases, their symptoms at the outset are similar, and the sailors would likely call either or both Yellow Jack.
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Malaria logo #20805A disease caused by a parasite spread by Anopheles mosquitoes; it kills many people
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Malaria logo #20875a parasitic disease spread by mosquitoes that causes chills and fever; potentially fatal complications in the liver, kidneys, blood, and brain are possible
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malaria logo #20974 noun 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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malaria logo #21221Infectious parasitic disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes, marked by periodic fever and an enlarged spleen. When a female mosquito of the Anopheles genus bites a human who has malaria, it takes in with the human blood one of four malaria protozoa of the genus P...
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malaria logo #22348disease transmitted by Anopheles mosquito bites and characterized by chills, fever, and sweating
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malaria logo #23665 a disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bite
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malaria logo #23665[Difficult words] a disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bite
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malaria logo #23665[Obscure words] a disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bite
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