miasma in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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miasma <pl miasmas> [Am maɪˈæzmə, miˈæzmə, Brit mɪˈazmə, mʌɪˈazmə] N

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As a result of genetic engineering that would allow her to live in this miasma, her body also produces poisonous miasma and poisonous pus.
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Miasma was considered to be a poisonous vapor or mist filled with particles from decomposed matter (miasmata) that caused illnesses.
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At the time people did not readily believe germ theory of disease, instead favoring miasma theory.
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He is studying magic and wants to one day rid the world of miasma.
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However, in his opinion, miasma is different from malaria and dysentery.
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Sewers were built since the 1850s, initially based on the erroneous belief that bad air (miasma theory) caused cholera and typhoid.
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The miasma caused a lot of diseases such as the cold, influenza, heat strokes, malaria, or dysentery.
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The theory held that the origin of these epidemic diseases was a miasma, emanating from rotting organic matter.
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The guest rooms are small, over-heated, and over-furnished with a miasma of romantic marble statuary.
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He subsequently abandoned the idea of notation completely, but remained, in his words, lost in a miasma of structural rendition.
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