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means A medicine that prevents or treats malaria by killing the Plasmodium parasite or stopping it from multiplying in the blood.

from A straightforward 19th/20th-century compound built from the Greek-derived prefix 'anti-' (against) and 'malaria' itself, which comes from Italian 'mal'aria' — literally 'bad air.' That name is a fossil of old medical belief: before anyone knew mosquitoes carried the disease, people blamed the foul vapors rising from swamps and marshes near cities like Rome. The word stuck even after science found the real culprit, so 'antimalarial' carries a little buried irony — it's a war declared on bad air that was actually a war on a tiny hitchhiking parasite all along.