blackwater fever
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- noun
- /ˈblækˌwɔːtər ˈfiːvər/
- Specialized
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fiebre de agua negra
- I hoped those needles might keep me safe from bush fever, blackwater fever, cholera, malaria, and drowning.
Examples
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Many of them died... ...from malaria, typhoid, blackwater fever.
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You don't know that this is blackwater fever.
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They've never seen blackwater fever in their lives.
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They may not know blackwater fever... but they know when somebody is dying.
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But he eventually came down with blackwater fever and had to return to France, having only taken seven (seven!) pictures abroad.
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Billy has blackwater fever.
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The doctor diagnosed him with blackwater fever after he exhibited symptoms of severe kidney failure.
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Many travelers are warned about the dangers of blackwater fever, particularly in malaria-endemic regions.
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After experiencing dark-colored urine and extreme fatigue, she learned that she had blackwater fever, a serious form of malaria.
Synonyms
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A serious disease spread by mosquito bites that causes recurring fever and chills
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An illness that makes urine dark when severe malaria destroys red blood cells
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A severe form of malaria that happens in tropical areas
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'blackwater' (dark-coloured urine) with 'fever' (illness with high temperature), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it refers to an illness involving dark urine and fever. However the specific medical sense — a severe, often malaria-related haemolytic condition — is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts, so the full clinical meaning would likely remain unclear to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Blackwater fever comes from a striking sign of the illness: patients' urine turned very dark and looked like black water because red blood cells were breaking down. That's why the name means a severe form of malaria that often caused kidney failure.