BLACKWATER FEVER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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