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vomito

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[vom-i-toh, voh-mi-] / ˈvɒm ɪˌtoʊ, ˈvoʊ mɪ- /

noun

Pathology.
  1. the black vomit of yellow fever.


Etymology

Origin of vomito

1825–35; < Spanish vómito < Latin vomitus ( see vomitus)

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The airsickness bag fills up to the brim with a substance known as the vomito negro, or the black vomit.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The smell of the vomito negro fills the passenger cabin.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

It was high time to be off, when the yellow fever, the deadly vomito, had thus made its triumphant entry, and was ruling and ravaging like some mighty man of war in a stormed fortress.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

By six o'clock next morning the terrible "vomito" had carried him off.

From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd

Once in Vera Cruz he took the vomito, and was saved by this treatment.

From Angel Agnes The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport by Charles Wesley Alexander

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