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Qual è il significato di miasma?
miasma [dal gr. míasma -atos “lordura”] (pl. -i). – [esalazione malsana che emana da sostanze organiche in decomposizione (cadaveri, acque stagnanti) e, più in generale, odore sgradevole: i miasma della palude, miasma irrespirabili]…
Che cosa significa Polito?
polire)], letter. – 1. Liscio, levigato, privo di asperità: metallo p.; una lama ben p.; spigoli p.; chiaro, p. e vivo ghiaccio (Petrarca).
Che cos’è fetore?
foetor -oris, der. di foetēre «puzzare»]. – Puzzo forte e disgustoso: f. insopportabile di sostanze putrefatte; moriron di stento e fetore in orridi carceri (B.
Qual è il contrario di fetore?
CONTR profumo, fragranza, aroma.
What does the name Miasma mean?
noun plural noun miasmas, plural noun miasmata /-mətə/. 1 literary A highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor. ‘ a miasma of stale alcohol hung around him like marsh gas’. More example sentences. ‘Today’s the day for refuse collection where I live, and the miasma of smells and stench from the bins was like wading through a marsh this morning.’.
What is the miasma theory?
Miasma theory held that soil polluted with waste products of any kind gave off a ‘miasma’ into the air, which caused many major infectious diseases of the day. People living near swamps, and thus particularly vulnerable to marsh gases, were thought to develop fever from these gases – a fever that came to be known as malaria (bad air).
What is the opposite of miasma?
What is the opposite of miasma? Opposite of an unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapour. perfume. sweetness. aroma. fragrance. What is lockstep? 1 : a mode of marching in step by a body of persons going one after another as closely as possible. 2 : a standard method or procedure that is mindlessly adhered to or that minimizes individuality. in lockstep.
What is miasma disease?
The miasma theory, holding that disease was the result of environmental emanations or miasmas, went back to Greek and Roman medicine, and Hippocrates’ treatise On Air, Water, and Places. Miasmists believed that disease was caused by infectious mists or noxious vapors emanating from filth in the towns and that the method of prevention of infectious diseases was to establish sanitary measures to clean the streets of garbage, sewage, animal carcasses, and wastes that were features of urban