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blackwater fever
noun
: a febrile complication of repeated malarial attacks that is characterized especially by extensive kidney damage and urine discolored by heme from blood
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And while Europeans may have only counted their African conscripts and calculated their value as tools, one image, a handwritten ledger, lists causes of death—typhus, blackwater fever, mauled by a lion—along with their names.
—Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
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First Known Use
1884, in the meaning defined above
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“Blackwater fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blackwater%20fever. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
blackwater fever
noun
: a rare febrile complication of repeated malarial attacks that is marked by destruction of blood cells with hemoglobinuria and extensive kidney damage
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