black-water fever

British  

noun

1. Also called: Texas fever.  vet science a form of babesiosis seen in cattle, deer, bison, water buffalo, African buffalo, and reindeer; characterized by fever, depression, jaundice, dark red-black discolouration of the urine, anaemia, and death

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Example Sentences

"We've got black-water fever on board now, Brasse," he said in a weary voice.

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I was minding Tommy Dennison at about this time—a jaundiced-coloured skeleton in a very bad way with black-water fever.

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To allow the foetid fresh water to dry on them would be courting a speedy attack of black-water fever.

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During the interval Denbigh and O'Hara were peremptorily ordered to leave the Pelikan and take up their quarters on the Myra, the reason being that von Riesser was terribly afraid of illness, and in spite of the doctor's assurances he had a firm belief that O'Hara was suffering from yellow fever, malaria, black-water fever, and every tropical disease under the sun.

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He had been a long while recovering from the wound that had crippled him, and from the black-water fever.

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