英语词汇“malaria”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

ma·lar·i·a

(mə-lârē-ə)

1. An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium in red blood cells, which is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito.

2. Archaic Bad or foul air; miasma.

[Italian, from mala aria, bad air (from the belief that malaria was caused by vapors emanating from swamps, rather than mosquitos that bred there ) : mala, feminine of malo, bad (from Latin malus; see mel-³ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots) + aria, air; see ARIA.]

ma·lari·al, ma·lari·an, ma·lari·ous adj.

单词	malaria
释义	ma·lar·i·a (mə-lârē-ə) n. 1. An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium in red blood cells, which is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito. 2. Archaic Bad or foul air; miasma. [Italian, from mala aria, bad air (from the belief that malaria was caused by vapors emanating from swamps, rather than mosquitos that bred there ) : mala, feminine of malo, bad (from Latin malus; see mel-³ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots) + aria, air; see ARIA.] ma·lari·al, ma·lari·an, ma·lari·ous adj.
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