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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Each volume is preserved in a silken cover—and the whole is kept inviolate from the impurities of bibliomaniacal miasmata, in a sarcophagus-shaped piece of furniture of cedar and mahogany.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
A film of foreign substance on the skin will inevitably become the seat of detention of miasmata and infectious vapors.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
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
Much of that region is heavily timbered, and, upon cutting it away in spots, and letting in the rays of the sun upon vegetable matter undergoing decomposition, miasmata are generated.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
They labor frequently in marshy grounds, where they inhale pestiferous miasmata, which destroy their health, often irrevocably.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
