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coffee-ground vomit

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C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Dark, granular vomit whose colour comes from blood partly digested by stomach acid, indicating upper GI bleeding.

The nursing home reported coffee-ground vomit overnight, so we treated it as an upper GI bleed.

Topic: Gastroenterology in Medical English

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