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black vomit

noun

Definitions

  1. A blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds due to hemorrhage, emitted in severer cases…

    A blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds due to hemorrhage, emitted in severer cases of yellow fever.

    • A fever, with yellow skin and black vomit in some of the cases, appeared among a party of forty men.
    • On the third or fourth day, or later, the vomited matters..begin to contain blood..and they soon assume..a coffee-ground character, constituting the so-called black vomit.

  2. The disease of yellow fever itself.

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