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BLACKWATER FEVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blackwater fever mean?
• BLACKWATER FEVER (noun)
The noun BLACKWATER FEVER has 1 sense:
1. severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
Familiarity information: BLACKWATER FEVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("blackwater fever" is a kind of...):
malaria (an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever)
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