miasma
noun
noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
miasmata
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pluralof miasma.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He complains of much sickness among his men round Mantua, owing to the heat and miasmata from the marshes, but so far no deaths.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
The action of miasmata, suggested by Lankester, is as obscure in the effects produced upon plants as in those upon animals.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
Dogma makes dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
I believe that it is by a direct operation on the system, and not by the generation of miasmata, that heat proves so deleterious to the infant.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
The air, purer and less charged with miasmata and heterogeneous emanations, becomes at the same time drier.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
