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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLACKWATER FEVER

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Blackwater fever is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BLACKWATER FEVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blackwater fever

Blackwater fever is a complication of malaria in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream, releasing hemoglobin directly into the blood vessels and into the urine, frequently leading to kidney failure. The disease was first linked to malaria by the Sierra Leonean physician Dr John Farrell Easmon in his 1884 pamphlet entitled The Nature and Treatment of Blackwater Fever. Easmon coined the name 'Blackwater fever' and was the first to successfully treat such cases following the publication of his pamphlet.

Definition of blackwater fever in the English dictionary

The definition of blackwater fever in the dictionary is a rare and serious complication of malaria, characterized by massive destruction of red blood cells, producing dark red or blackish urine.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLACKWATER FEVER

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BLACKWATER FEVER

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Synonyms and antonyms of blackwater fever in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «blackwater fever» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLACKWATER FEVER

Find out the translation of blackwater fever to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blackwater fever from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blackwater fever» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黑尿热
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fiebre de aguas negras
570 millions of speakers

English

blackwater fever
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Blackwater बुखार
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

حمى بلاك ووتر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Blackwater лихорадка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

febre Blackwater
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ব্ল্যাকওয়াটার জ্বর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la fièvre bilieuse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Demam hitam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwarzwasserfieber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

黒水熱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

블랙 워터 발열
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Demam ireng
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

nước đen sốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருப்பு வெள்ளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ब्लॅकवॉटर ताप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karasu humması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

febbre blackwater
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gorączka Blackwater
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Blackwater лихоманка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

febră Blackwater
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

blackwater πυρετός
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

swartwaterkoors
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

blackwater feber
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Blackwater feber
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blackwater fever

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLACKWATER FEVER»

The term «blackwater fever» is normally little used and occupies the 137.686 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLACKWATER FEVER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blackwater fever

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLACKWATER FEVER»

Discover the use of blackwater fever in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blackwater fever and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blackwater Fever
At hand is a deadly reckoning.
Steve Tucker, 2011
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Treatment and Prevention of Malaria: Antimalarial Drug ...
In: Schnitzer RJ, Hawking F (eds) Experimental chemotherapy, vol 1. Academic, New York, pp 513–602 George CR (2009) Blackwater fever: the rise and fall of an exotic disease. J Nephrol22 (Suppl 14):120–128 110.Bruce-Chwatt LJ (1987)  ...
Henry M. Staines, Sanjeev Krishna, 2012
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The Geography of Disease
Hemoglobinuria Fever or Blackwater Fever is by some regarded as a severe form of malarial infection, by others as a distinct and separate disease. It is characterised by fever; the passage of dark, almost black, urine ; bilious vomiting ; severe ...
Frank G. Clemow, 2011
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A Certain Dr. Thorndyke
Blackwater fever is not a disease which attacks newcomers. It lies in wait for the broken-down coaster whose health has been sapped by long-standing chronic malaria. In the immense majority of cases it occurs during, or after, the third year of ...
R. Austin Freeman, 2001
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Postgraduate Haematology
The spread of chloroquine-resistant malaria in the Far East has led to increased use of quinine and an increase in the incidence of blackwater fever. The degree of parasitaemia is very variable. In about half of the cases the parasite count may  ...
A. Victor Hoffbrand, Daniel Catovsky, Edward G. D. Tuddenham, 2011
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Treatment of Non-malarial Fever
BLACKWATER FEVER: ars^crot-h., lyc. CATHETER FEVER: aeon., camph-ac., mag-p., nux-v. CEREBRO-SPlNAL FEVER: acon., aeth., agar., ail., am-c., ant-t., APlS, arg-n., arn., ars., bapt., BELL., bry., cact., camph., canth., cic., cimic., cocc., ...
S. R. Sudarshan, 1999
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Tropical Pathology:
Dexamethasone is used for cerebral malaria, pulmonary symptoms, and blackwater fever. 2. Prednisolone phosphate helps control hemolysis in severe hemolytic anemia. 3. Anticonvulsants. IV. Other Forms of Therapy 1 . Fluid replacement for ...
T. G. Ashworth, 1995
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military ...
Young was especially vulnerable due to his previous bout of blackwater fever, and because he suffered from the effects of Bright's disease, an enlarged heart, and high blood pressure. Young had never challenged the doctors' diagnosis that ...
Brian Shellum, 2010
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French Foreign Legionnaire 1890-1914
There was never any shortage of volunteers, despite the spectacle of those who returned to Algeria with their health wrecked by malaria, blackwater fever, scrub typhus and cholera. For much of the 1880s–90s Tonkin was the only place a ...
Martin Windrow, 2013
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The Turnstone: A Doctor's Story
He had reported that Duggan's wife, formerly Miss Van Rooyen, had died of ' blackwater fever' in 1929. This I understood to mean that she had died from an illness in which she had a dark urine and, since she had come from Africa, it had been ...
Geoffrey Dean, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLACKWATER FEVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blackwater fever is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hertiage: Historians track the life and crimes of 'Texas Jack'
On his last expedition Wardlaw collapsed with blackwater fever (a complication of malaria), but managed to survive alone in the jungle for nine ... «Ham&High, Jun 15»
2
Night of blues tunes at Nambour bar
... Nambour presents a powerhouse acoustic dirty blues double-billing, Karl S. Williams and Shane Warren Hicks (of The Blackwater Fever) this ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, May 15»
3
Bone Doggie Mentors Denton's Aspiring Songwriters on Open Mic …
... the Who's Tommy, eventually playing in a three-piece metal band called Blackwater Fever that he says employed a "KISS on a budget" look. «Dallas Observer, Mar 15»
4
Successful sportsman killed by fever in First World War
He died of blackwater fever, a severe form of malaria, while fighting in Salonika, Greece, in April 1918, seven months before the war ended. «Oxford Mail, Mar 15»
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Charity appeal: the Ebola crisis will hit the fight against malaria
Back when west Africa was known as the “White Man's Graveyard”, missionaries used to live in fear of blackwater fever. A side-effect of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
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'Get Smart,' starring Don Adams, first aired on this date in 1965
During the war, he contracted Blackwater Fever, which nearly killed him. He spent almost a year in a military hospital in the South Pacific. «Reading Eagle, Sep 14»
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RG Lee steeled by 'toil' on Panama Canal
But before he could board a ship bound for the U.S., he contracted an illness known as blackwater fever that killed many of the canal workers. «Brnow, Aug 14»
8
Indigenous Australia left behind in rheumatic heart disease fight
Vintage medical textbooks are filled with diagnoses unfamiliar to contemporary doctors – wandering wombs, blackwater fever, biliousness and ... «The Conversation, Jun 14»
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Five things you need to know today, and I get some good news
I think I also saw that I might have Double Bulgarian Wasting Disease, Nephrotic Mind Warts, Blackwater Fever, Grocer's Itch, Canine Madness ... «Cincinnati Business Courier, Jun 14»
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Forgotten Word War 2 hero was only man of 150000 D-Day soldiers …
But he caught blackwater fever and had to quit. Stan Hollis Before: A pre-war snap Alice on Redcar beach. That didn't stop him when war was ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 14»

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