- remittent malaria
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English-Arabic Medical Dictionary. 2013.
remittent malaria
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bilious remittent malaria — a complication of falciparum malaria mainly involving the liver, characterized by continuous vomiting, epigastric and hepatic tenderness, marked jaundice, and high remittent fever … Medical dictionary
remittent fever — noun A severe type of malaria in which the temperature falls slightly from time to time • • • Main Entry: ↑remit * * * remittent fever, a fever in which the symptoms lessen and then return, without ever disappearing entirely … Useful english dictionary
Malaria — An infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites from the Plasmodium family that can be transmitted by the sting of the Anopheles mosquito or by a contaminated needle or transfusion. Falciparum malaria is the most deadly type. The symptoms of… … Medical dictionary
malaria — malarial, malarian, malarious, adj. /meuh lair ee euh/, n. 1. Pathol. 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 … Universalium
remittent fever — see fever * * * a fever in which the diurnal variation is 1°C or more, but in which the temperature never falls to a normal level; see malaria … Medical dictionary
malaria — noun a mosquito borne intermittent and remittent fever endemic to warmer regions and caused by a protozoan parasite (genus Plasmodium). Derivatives malarial adjective malarian adjective malarious adjective Origin C18: from Ital., from mal aria,… … English new terms dictionary
malaria — ma•lar•i•a [[t]məˈlɛər i ə[/t]] n. 1) pat any of a group of usu. intermittent or remittent diseases characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating and caused by a parasitic protozoan transferred to the human bloodstream by an anopheles… … From formal English to slang
malaria — /məˈlɛəriə / (say muh lairreeuh) noun 1. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, and characterised by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating; formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations, but now known to be caused by a …
malaria — n. 1 an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium, introduced by the bite of a mosquito. 2 archaic an unwholesome atmosphere caused by the exhalations of marshes, to which this fever was formerly… … Useful english dictionary
Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… … Medical dictionary
Fever — (also known as pyrexia, from the Greek pyretos meaning fire, or a febrile response, from the Latin word febris , meaning fever, and archaically known as ague) is a frequent medical sign that describes an increase in internal body temperature to… … Wikipedia
