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Malarious

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.

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malarious

a. Causing or relating to malaria.

Usage examples of "malarious".

There are some malarious spots on the edge of Lake Champlain, arid there have been some temporary centres of malaria, within the memory of man, on one or more of our Massachusetts rivers, but these are harmless enough, for the most part, unless the millers dam them, when they are apt to retaliate with a whiff from their meadows, that sets the whole neighborhood shaking with fever and ague.

In an hour the malarious plain was crossed, and we have been among piles of mountains ever since.

It has an affinity for dense foliage, which has the power of accumulating it, when lying in the course of winds blowing from malarious localities.

So far as the drying of malarious lands is concerned, it is only necessary to construct drains in precisely the same manner as for agricultural improvement.

In malarious countries, and particularly in the malarial fevers of the late war, enormous quantities of quinin were frequently given.

It seems to me, I said, that the great additions which have been made by realism to the territory of literature consist largely in swampy, malarious, ill-smelling patches of soil which had previously been left to reptiles and vermin.

Brought to the country centuries ago, as brutal savages from Africa, they had learned nothing of Christian civilization, except that it meant endless toil, in malarious swamps, under the lash of the taskmaster.

There were times in which the thought would force itself upon my consciousness, How long is the universe to look upon this dreadful experiment of a malarious planet, with its unmeasurable freight of suffering, its poisonous atmosphere, so sweet to breathe, so sure to kill in a few scores of years at farthest, and its heart-breaking woes which make even that brief space of time an eternity?

Now it seemed The world was one malarious mire, Crying for purification: chief This land of France.

In short he began to turn a microscope, with which he was no expert, on to the blood of malarious Hindus.

He pawed around in countless she-mosquitoes who had fed on malarious birds.

He insinuated himself into the already sufficiently annoyed families of those hot malarious towns.

Grassi had discovered always hanging around malarious places along with the zanzarone.