The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malarial \Ma*la"ri*al\, Malarian \Ma*la"ri*an\, Malarious \Ma*la"ri*ous\, a. Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.
Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.
Remittent \Re*mit"tent\ (r?-m?t"tent), a. [L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F. r['e]mittent.] Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.
Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.
Usage examples of "malarial fever".
The drop was warm as blood, warm as the blood of a man racked by malarial fever.
Mungo held Robyn's head, while Elizabeth forced small sips of the steaming liquid between her white lips, and Robyn fought them in her delirium, hounded and driven by the terrible phantoms of malarial fever.
He took a deep breath, and held it for a moment, fighting off the waves of blind panic, and slowly they receded, leaving him feeling weak and shaken as though from a heavy dose of malarial fever.
I was surprised to find but few cases of malarial fever, and no well-marked cases either of typhus or typhoid fever.
The absence of the different forms of malarial fever may be accounted for in the supposition that the artificial atmosphere of the Stockade, crowded densely with human beings and loaded with animal exhalations, was unfavorable to the existence and action of the malarial poison.
It had been nearly a year since her last attack of malarial fever, and she did seem generally well, but .
His face was still flushed and he was shaking like a man with malarial fever.
On the third day of his imprisonment a malarial fever, due to the loathsome condition of the place, declared itself, and before forty-eight hours had passed his condition was desperate.
We formulated before the days of Ross the 'laws' of malarial fever, without reference to the mosquito.
The bark was formerly official, with that of other species of Magnolia, in the United States Pharmacopceia, employed for its tonic, stimulant and diaphoretic properties and, like other bitters, employed in the treatment of malarial fever and considered a valuable remedy for rheumatism.
She was suffering from malarial fever, and seemed dying by inches.
There was some malarial fever already among those who had raided Sherbro, and although the captured slavers - they had sailed confidently into the harbour without the least precaution - had no more than half a cargo each, many of the negroes had been aboard since Old Calabar, and some were in a bad way.
She looked like a woman in the grips of malarial fever, radiating heat like an old-fashioned stove.
True, Jackstraw, Zagero and I were little better, but Corazzini was the only one who had driven in that intense cold: he was shaking like a man with malarial fever, and from the way he stumbled up the steps I could see that his legs were gone.
Fe'efe'e, being a creature of marshes and the sequel of malarial fever, is not original in atolls.