black·wa·ter fever (bl k wô t r, -w tr)n. A serious, often fatal complication of chronic malaria, characterized by the passage of bloody, dark red or black urine. |
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| Noun | 1. | blackwater fever - severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine 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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