MALARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malaria mean? 

• MALARIA (noun)
  The noun MALARIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: MALARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALARIA (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 

Malaria parasites contain large amounts of heme-iron, a product from the digestion of hemoglobin.

(Artemisinin Dimer, NCI Thesaurus)

Similar in structure and activity to chloroquine, amodiaquine is effective against some chloroquine-resistant strains, particularly Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly malaria parasite.

(Amodiaquine, NCI Thesaurus)

The first molecularly confirmed cases of malaria transmission from monkeys to humans were reported in early 2000s, in Southeast Asia.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

The liver is also a fantastic place for intervention because one can then prevent that person from getting malaria by stopping parasites from coming out of their liver.

(New way to stop falciparum malaria transmission, SciDev.Net)

Allelic variants of the DHFR gene are associated with malaria and megaloblastic amemia.

(DHFR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This is the severest form of malaria and is associated with the highest levels of parasites in the blood.

(Falciparum Malaria, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A genus of parasitic protozoans that includes the causative agent of malaria.

(Plasmodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Others, like malaria, are common in other parts of the world.

(Parasitic Diseases, NIH)

Travelers outside the United States may be at risk for malaria and other infections.

(Insect Bites and Stings, NIH)

Since 2010, malaria mortality rates have dropped 29 percent, again according to the WHO.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)