Usually means: Noxious vapors causing disease; stench.
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  1. miasma: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. miasma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. miasma: Collins English Dictionary
  4. miasma: Vocabulary.com
  5. Miasma, miasma: Wordnik
  6. miasma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. miasma: Wiktionary
  8. miasma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. miasma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. miasma: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. miasma: Dictionary.com
  12. miasma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Miasma (Greek mythology), Miasma (album), Miasma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Miasma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. miasma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. miasma: Rhymezone
  17. Miasma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. miasma: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. miasma: FreeDictionary.org
  20. miasma: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. miasma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. miasma: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. miasma: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. miasma: Merriam-Webster
  25. miasma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. miasma-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. miasma: Legal dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. miasma: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Miasma: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. miasma: Medical dictionary
  5. Miasma: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Miasma, Miasma, Miasma: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. miasma: A Word A Day
  3. miasma: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MIASMA: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

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  1. miasma: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See miasmal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.
noun:  (figurative) A noxious atmosphere or influence, an ominous environment.

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