malarious
adjUK /məˈlɛəɹi.əs/ · US /məˈlɛɹi.əs/
Etymology From malaria + -ous.
1
Medicine, Sciences Of a place or region With malaria; where people may catch malaria.
- In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 102:
- Dr. Abrams, the Columbia expert, said in an interview that the Uganda findings had additional implications for treating H.I.V.-infected children in malarious areas.2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in New York Times:
2
Medicine, Sciences Causing or relating to malaria.
- Derived terms
- nonmalarious