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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A serious, often fatal complication of chronic malaria, characterized by the passage of bloody, dark red or black urine.
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- noun severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine
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