malaria
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3.9
- noun
- /məˈlɛrɪə/
- Specialized
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malaria
- Pregnant women should be advised against travel to malaria risk regions.
- mosquito-borne malaria
- malaria parasite
- malaria infection
Have you done any research or heard anything about those malaria drugs they've been testing?
- Have you done any research or heard anything about those malaria drugs they've been testing?
- You know, I knew a girl that had contracted cerebral malaria from a mosquito bite.
- They're not so likely to die of diarrhea, malaria, HIV.
- And those efforts were scaled back malaria prevention efforts.
- And then from Africa, yellow fever and and malaria come in.
- I mean, there are two million deaths by these mosquitoes with malaria every year.
Examples
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Look, this one treats malaria.
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In the case of malaria, what we'd like to do is mosquito proof houses.
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I think you might have a touch of malaria.
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It's just a bad case of malaria.
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It's either that or malaria.
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One of the things that could explain it is that that Nigeria has the highest malaria burden in the world.
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In heavily infected areas of the world, the risk of dying of malaria begins at birth.
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So there was this tremendous upsurge of malaria during the First World War.
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You know, I knew a girl that had contracted cerebral malaria from a mosquito bite.
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She recovered after a long battle with malaria that left her unable to work for months.
Synonyms
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7.9
A severe form of malaria that happens in tropical areas
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.1
A very small single cell that lives in human blood, spreads by mosquito bites and causes malaria
How Painful
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4
3.5
- Specialized
113
3.9
- Specialized
50
3.3
17
1.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word malaria comes from the Italian phrase mala aria meaning 'bad air', because people long ago thought the air from swamps made them sick. That's why malaria now refers to the serious fever spread by mosquitoes that live in those swampy places.