hemorrhage
hemorrhage
Definition
hem·or·rhage (hem′ər ij′, hem′rij′)
noun
the escape of large quantities of blood from a blood vessel; heavy bleeding
Etymology: Fr hémorrhagie < L haemorrhagia < Gr haimorrhagia < haima, blood (see hemo-) + base of rhēgnynai, to break, burst
intransitive verb -·rhaged′, -·rhag′·ing
to have a hemorrhage
hem′·or·rhag′ic (-ər aj′ik) adjective
hemorrhage
Synonyms
hemorrhage
n.
hemorrhage
Usage Examples
Object
- justice: Who among us hasn't wanted to slit the tendons of thieves and watch as they hemorrhage justice back to The Man?
Converse of object
- suffer: Our dear friend, Ann Bowling, suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage.
- cause: Average or large doses of warfarin in humans may cause hemorrhage.
- have: I have been rather sick and have had two small hemorrhages, but the second I believe to have been accidental.
- stop: In addition, the powder from dried laurel leaves is good for stopping hemorrhage from the nose.
- include: There are, however, isolated case reports of such leiomyomas giving rise to complications including gastrointestinal hemorrhage and obstruction.
- indicate: Black, tarry stools may indicate a hemorrhage from an ulcer of the stomach or the intestine.
Adjective modifier
- postpartum: Furthermore, submucosal fibroids can increase the chances of postpartum hemorrhage, obstructed labor, stalled labor and cesarean section.
- subarachnoid: The headache wasn't a hangover; I was having a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- intracerebral: Matthews MK Jr. Association of Ginkgo biloba with intracerebral hemorrhage.
- intracranial: The sole failure in the newly diagnosed group died early from an intracranial hemorrhage.
- cerebral: Her mother, Agnes Murray died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1914.
- pulmonary: As pulmonary hemorrhage a logit model americans are uninsured.
Modifying Another Word
- massively: Marketing year aug hemorrhaging massively and and his own when he first.
Noun used with modifier
- brain: Eastman returned home but was in poor health and died of a brain hemorrhage on 8th July, 1928.
Preposition: in
- infant: Prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants Early Human Development.
- case: The complications in the FT group were oculomotor palsy in 3 cases, hemorrhage in one case, and frontal infarction in one case.
- trachea: There was no froth or hemorrhage in the trachea.
Preposition: from
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