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black vomit

black vomit noun: a blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds due to hemorrhage, emitted in severer cases of yellow fever.

Noun

black vomit (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) 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.1833, chapter 2, in Cyclopædia of practical medicine, page 295
    • Black vomit is nothing but a hœmorrhage from the stomach, and may exist in any degree, from a few particles of blood mixed, as it were, into a quantity of light glairy fluid, presenting the appearance of floating dark specks or flocculi, to that of a rapid and profuse discharge of pure red blood.1854 May, Daniel Drake, The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, page 369
  2. (obsolete) The disease of yellow fever itself.

black vomit meaning in Tamil

black vomit in Tamil

காருமட்டல்

Questions about black vomit

What does black vomit mean?
Black vomit means a blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds due to hemorrhage, emitted in severer cases of yellow fever.
What is black vomit in Tamil?
Black vomit in Tamil is காருமட்டல். See Black vomit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is black vomit?
Black vomit is a noun.

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