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MALARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malaria" is a kind of...):
protozoal infection (any infection caused by a protozoan)
Meronyms (parts of "malaria"):
ague; chills and fever (successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malaria"):
blackwater fever (severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine)
jungle fever (severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions)
Derivation:
malarial (of or infected by or resembling malaria)
Context examples:
They transmit several serious diseases including malaria, one of the most common infectious diseases in the world.
(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)
Early diagnosis of malaria is vital in order to increase the chances of treating infected people.
(Biosensor promises early malaria diagnosis, SciDev.Net)
Chloroquine is the most widely used drug against malaria, except for those cases caused by chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum.
(Chloroquine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Agents used to treat malaria, and are usually classified based on action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human.
(Antimalarial Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
Genetic polymorphisms are associated with the extent of malarial rosetting, and can confer protection against severe malaria.
(CR1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
When a mosquito infected with malaria parasites bites someone, it transfers the parasites into their bloodstream via its saliva.
(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)
Some of the major diseases currently affecting countries around the globe include HIV/AIDS, malaria, pandemic/avian flu, and tuberculosis.
(International Health, NIH)
Additionally Giemsa can be used as a differential stain to determine microbial cell adherence to human cells as well as in the diagnosis of malaria, spirochete, and protozoal infections.
(Giemsa Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)
DDT was once widely used as a pesticide to control insects in agriculture and to control malaria, typhus and body lice, but its use is now limited.
(Chlorophenothane, NCI Thesaurus)
When the doctor had wormed this secret from him on the afternoon of the attack, and when next morning he saw the anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver, given him the chart, which was now useless—given him the stores, for Ben Gunn's cave was well supplied with goats' meat salted by himself—given anything and everything to get a chance of moving in safety from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the money.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
