miasma (plural miasmas or miasmata) 1  A noxious atmosphere or influence. 2  A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.
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miasma n (plural miasma's, diminutive miasmaatje n) miasma (noxious atmosphere or influence) (medicine, historical) miasma (emanation from rotting organic matter causing diseases)
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Top definition. miasma. The release of noxious fumes or toxins from dead and/or decaying plants or animals. Usually causes abnormal things to happen. The overbearing amount of deaths must be caused by that plants miasma. by HomocideFactor101 March 27, 2005.
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Waring, considered by Savannah inhabitants to be the hero of the epidemic, wrote in his review of it in 1821 that the miasms created by lowlands on the city's perimeter, in addition to a fog blown in by north and northeast winds, struck Savannah and generated the most deleterious effects.
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These miasms are categories of diseases in which a variety of symptoms can be manifested in a specific individual. See also constitution, diathesis, predisposition, psoric miasm, sycotic miasm, syphilitic miasm, and terrain.
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Miasma (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, a miasma is a contagious power ... that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of the wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe.. An example is Atreus who invited his brother Thyestes to a delicious stew containing the bodies of his own sons.
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Example Sentences for miasma. 1  Yet, with all its miasma, this backwater district has sent many a good man back to the main Road, which we all try to travel. 2  In the age of monarchy the king lived surrounded by a miasma of intrigue. 3  The cold chills ran over me, as if I had been under the influence of miasma.'.
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miasma m (plural miasmas) 1  miasma (noxious atmosphere or influence) ( 2 medicine, historical) miasma (noxious emanation from swamps that was thought to cause diseases)
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In their charter, the Georgia Medical Society argued that the miasms inundating the city were most likely emerging from rice fields: with a semi-tropical climate, such as ours, there could be no worse or more malignant incidental cause of disease than the stagnant water, which remains on a rice field exposed to an ardent summer's sun, and the ...
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47 Moby Thesaurus words for miasma: BO, afterdamp, bad breath, bad smell, blackdamp, body odor, breath, chokedamp, cloud, coal gas, damp, effluvium, exhalation, exhaust, exhaust gas, fetid air, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, firedamp, flatus, fluid, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, fume, graveolence, halitosis, malaria, malodor, mephitis, nidor, ...
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miasma meaning
Miasma means a noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.