blackwater fever

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   severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine

   Broadermalaria

Questions about blackwater fever

What does blackwater fever mean?

blackwater fever means "severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine".

Is blackwater fever a common word?

blackwater fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.