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Of or infected by or resembling a disease characterized by attacks of chills, fever and sweating.

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Usage examples (39)
  • malarial fever
  • Genetic and biochemical aspects of drug resistance in malarial parasites.
  • The deaths from malaria among AA persons were balanced out by the increased survival among AS persons, which is why sickle cell disease remained in malarial areas.
  • Pa settled his family in malarial swamps, put them in danger from unfriendly natives, and moved them time and time again all over the prairie always at their great peril.
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