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miasmatic, a.|maɪæzˈmætɪk|
[f. Gr. µιασµατ-, µίασµα miasma + -ic.]
Pertaining to or having the nature of miasma; caused by noxious or infectious exhalations; malarial. Also fig.
1835Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 57/1 The softening in intermittents is owing to the miasmatic poison altering the qualities of the blood. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan ix. 194 The entire absence of marshes..must exempt it from all miasmatic disease. 1881P. B. Du Chaillu Land of Midnt. Sun II. 60 The miasmatic equatorial African jungle. 1938M. Brinig May Flavin iv. 396 An incomparable California sun pushing the miasmatic mists back into the sea. 1968‘Han Suyin’ Birdless Summer i. vi. 132 Pao and his benevolent brothers bemoaned the miasmatic disorder in which they were involved.
Hence miasˈmatical a., in the same sense; miasˈmatically adv., after the manner of miasma.
1855Ogilvie Suppl., Miasmatical. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 132 The infectious material may..increase also outside of the organism, in the substrata of the surrounding soil, i.e. miasmatically. |