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- noun Plural form of
miasma .
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Examples
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Epidemic fevers were still at - tributed variously to filth, the night air, "miasmas" and the wrath of God.
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943
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Walling is both star and morphing other, warping breathy harmonies and siren miasmas into elegant cyborg operas.
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Virchow entered medicine in the early 1840s, when nearly every disease was attributed to the workings of some invisible force: miasmas, neuroses, bad humors, and hysterias.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Virchow entered medicine in the early 1840s, when nearly every disease was attributed to the workings of some invisible force: miasmas, neuroses, bad humors, and hysterias.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Traditional Western medicine was also considered true for centuries, and was also wrong, based as it was on humours, miasmas and 'cures' like bleeding.
Ancient is not the same as sensible Brian Clegg 2010
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Virchow entered medicine in the early 1840s, when nearly every disease was attributed to the workings of some invisible force: miasmas, neuroses, bad humors, and hysterias.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Go quickly, the shortest route: keep the dirt clouds and miasmas out.
Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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It was believed that air housed cholera and other diseases and that it could directly affect the organism, through its “miasmas.”
Did You Know? Three thousand people died in 1833 Guadalajara cholera epidemic 2008
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Go quickly, the shortest route: keep the dirt clouds and miasmas out.
Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Alexandra Carr 2010
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It was believed that air housed cholera and other diseases and that it could directly affect the organism, through its “miasmas.”
Did You Know? Three thousand people died in 1833 Guadalajara cholera epidemic 2008
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