black vomit
Coffee-ground stomach contents
Black vomit is dark, blood-tinged vomit—a symptom of severe internal bleeding, particularly in the stomach.
The term is historically associated with yellow fever, where it often appeared in the disease's fatal stages: The patient began producing black vomit on the third day.
The dark color comes from partially digested blood.
Mosquito-spread tropical virus
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- jaundiceYellowing from bile pigment
- liver damageHarm to detoxifying organ
gastrointestinal · bilious · hemorrhage · fever · nausea · dehydration · renal failure · shock
The eighteen hundreds
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- HavanaCuba's largest city
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- colonial medicineHealthcare in colonized regions
Walter Reed · slave trade · Victorian era · medical history · sanitation · historical accounts · Panama Canal · military medicine
yellow fever
Mosquito-spread tropical virus
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- jaundiceYellowing from bile pigment
liver damage · gastrointestinal · bilious · hemorrhage · fever · nausea · dehydration · renal failure · shock · pathogen
19th century
The eighteen hundreds
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- HavanaCuba's largest city
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
Walter Reed · colonial medicine · slave trade · Victorian era · medical history · sanitation · historical accounts · Panama Canal · military medicine · port cities
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
loathing · gruesome · macabre · morbid · grotesque · nightmare · shock · repulsion · aversion · disturbing
death
Cessation of life
demise · dying · grave · doom · perish · deathbed · plague · pestilence · scourge
black vomitperfect health
Complete physical wellbeing
wellness · robust health · vitality · clean bill of health · asymptomatic
black, blacks, blacker, blackest, blackly, blackness, blacken, blackened, blackening