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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'black vomit' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a symptom of a serious medical condition. For example, "The patient started experiencing severe chest pain and black vomit."
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black vomit
noun
A blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds and due to hæmorrhage, vomited in severer cases of yellow fever; also, the disease of yellow fever itself.
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Soldiers infected with yellow fever also developed a high temperature, followed by headache and the "black vomit" caused by internal hemorrhaging.
Up to 15percentt of those bitten become severely ill, with symptoms that include black vomit and bleeding from the nose, mouth and eyes.
But, in fact, Dr. Blackburn had an ulterior motive: he was collecting the victims' clothing, poultices, blankets and sheets, many stained with black vomit.
The supplies at Funk and Freitas's makeup stations included My Blood brand stage blood in Standard Red; Reel Body Art Ink in Deep Red #7; and an ominous squirt bottle labeled MOUTH BLACK VOMIT.
Patients would complain of headaches and abdominal pain, but the disease, he wrote, was easy to spot by its colors: "yellow eyes and skin, purple hemorrhages into the skin, red blood pouring from the nose and mouth, black vomit".
Thus equipped with family memories, Ms. Rocco sets out to explain everything you ever wanted to know about malaria (it resembles yellow fever, absent the black vomit) and more.
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Creepy, silly, startling, irritating, and black-vomit-and-multicolored-urine disgusting, "The Oregonian" wears out its welcome within 30 minutes.
"Soon after his arrival at Fort Brown, he was attacked with yellow fever, which he resisted even through its most malignant and generally fatal stage, — black-vomit.
A small child stood on a cot watching as the team took the body away, stepping around a little boy lying immobile next to black buckets of vomit.
One day she was skipping around with a kind smile, the next she was locking her son in cupboards and projectile vomiting black bile all over his Cornflakes.
This is Norwegian black-metal band Vomit in their practice space.
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