Malaria

冬生怕義大利佬害黛西米勒得 malaria (Roman fever)









malaria



Y

瘧疾,污濁的空氣,瘴氣



D



–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.  



remittent

【醫】弛張的;忽輕忽重的

parasitic

[par-uh-sit-ik]

寄生的,食客的,由寄生物引起的

protozoan

[proh-tuh-zoh-uhn]

【動】原生動物

genus

【生】屬

anopheles

[uh-nof-uh-leez]

(單複同)(傳播瘧疾的)瘧蚊

wholesome

合乎衛生的;有益健康的





smolder smother

malaise

sporadic... intermittent is necessary but not sufficient to be sporadic