blackwater fever

Definitions of blackwater fever
  1. noun
    severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
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    type 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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