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Miasma may refer to: Miasma (ancient Greek religion), a contagious power that has an independent life of its own
==Medicine== Miasma theory, an obsolete medical theory that held that diseases were caused by a noxious form of "bad air" Miasm, an "infectious principle" underlying chronic disease and "peculiar morbid derangement of vital force"
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