Medical Definition of excoriation. 1: the act of abrading or wearing off the skin chafing and excoriation of the skin.
malaria. noun. 1  An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium in red blood cells, which is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito.
Best Answer: Yes. The malaria pathogen is a microscopically small, single-celled parasite named âplasmodium. Mosquitos spread the protozoan Plasmodium vivax that causes malaria. Added, source below: Plasmodium (the genus of pathogens causing malaria) The Plasmodium species causing malaria Plasmodium falciparum.