Malady vs Malaria - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between malady and malaria

is that malady is any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder while malaria is malaria.

(maladies)

Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

* The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster .

A moral or mental defect or disorder.

* Love's a malady without a cure. Dryden .

* ailment * disease * disorder * distemper * illness * sickness

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(head) (wikipedia malaria)

A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium , multiplies in blood every few days.

* ague

* malarial * antimalarial