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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Dark vomit consisting of digested blood and gastric contents.
  2. n. Severe yellow fever with symptomatic regurgitation of dark vomited matter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds and due to hæmorrhage, vomited in severer cases of yellow fever; also, the disease of yellow fever itself.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Med.) A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
  2. n. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito

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  • hernesheir Not to be confused with the holly species Ilex vomitoria, the source of a brewed infusion used by native Americans in its range, for purification and unity rituals, called by exploring Europeans the black drink. Vomiting, referring to to the species epithet vomitoria), may have been observed in drinkers who reacted to the high caffeine content of the drink, or to the actual volume of the drink taken. Jan 11, 2009

  • trivet Oh - no worries, c_b. Tropical diseases are just so extreme. All those fevers and worms that crawl around under your skin... *shudder* Mar 19, 2008

  • chained_bear I'm sorry, trivet. I defined it because I forgot to when I listed it, and it deserved a definition. I think it refers to the very last stages of the fever. Mar 19, 2008

  • trivet Eeeew. Mar 19, 2008

  • chained_bear Another name for yellow fever; usage on yellow jack. Mar 19, 2008

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