Definitions for malarias

malarias ma·lar·i·a

Spelling: [muh-lair-ee-uh]
IPA: /məˈlɛər i ə/

Malarias is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in malarias (aaailmrs).

Definitions for malarias

noun

  1. Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
  2. Archaic. unwholesome or poisonous air.

Origin of malarias

1730-40; Italian, contraction of mala aria bad air

Examples for malarias

With less than a dozen toilets in the entire community, poor sanitation fuels high rates of malaria and lethal cases of diarrhea.

A shocking statistic among many is that, on average, one person dies of malaria there every 30 seconds.

Kids suffering from malaria or extreme diarrhea are now too often left without medical care.

malaria, which is spread my mosquitoes, has also been on the rise since the camp was flooded.

Jenkin suffered a little from malaria, but of a different origin. '

The malaria has got hold of me again, and the doctor says I must go out at once.

The climate is tropical, and malaria, with its fever and ague, is prevalent.

She says the nurses have done some tests and say her daughter has malaria.

The malaria of the swamps attacked him, and he died within a few days.

She had died of the malaria, and her funeral could not be long delayed.

Word Value for malarias
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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