malarial
121tropical splenomegaly syndrome — a syndrome of massive splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, anemia, and elevated serum IgM levels that occurs in some areas where malaria is endemic, such as parts of sub Saharan Africa and New Guinea. Lymphocytic infiltrates are present in hepatic… …
122malaria — ma|lar|i|a [məˈleəriə US ˈler ] n [U] [Date: 1700 1800; : Italian; Origin: mala aria bad air ; because it was believed that the disease came from gases rising from wet land] a disease that is common in hot countries and that you get when a type… …
123Wagner von Jauregg, Julius — (pronounced [VAAG ner] fon [YOW Reg]) (1857–1940) Initiator of the malarial fever cure for neurosyphilis, Wagner was born in a small town in Upper Austria, into the family of a provincial bureaucrat. (His father, Adolf Johann Wagner,… …
124malaria — noun (U) a disease common in hot countries that is caused when an infected mosquito bites you malarial adjective: malarial fever …
125Airport Malaria — Malaria contracted in or near an airport, transmitted by mosquitos that have been carried by planes from malarial regions. Neither the transmission of insects nor airport malaria are new. According to a 2000 W.H.O. report, the first discovery of… …
126paludal — a. pertaining to marshes. ♦ paludicolous, a. inhabiting marshes. ♦ paludous,, a. marshy; living in marshes; malarial. ♦ paludrine n. synthetic anti malarial drug …
127antimalarial — noun a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria • Syn: ↑antimalarial drug • Hypernyms: ↑antiprotozoal, ↑antiprotozoal drug • Hyponyms: ↑chloroquine, ↑mefloquine, ↑ …
128malaria mosquito — noun transmits the malaria parasite • Syn: ↑malarial mosquito • Hypernyms: ↑mosquito • Member Holonyms: ↑Anopheles, ↑genus Anopheles * * * noun see …
