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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

hemorrhage Related Forms
hem′·or·rhag′ic (-ər aj′ik) adjective
hemorrhage Synonyms

hemorrhage

n.

discharge, bleeding, issue, emission of blood, hemorrhea, bloody flux, effusion; see also illness 1, injury 1.

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

  • ulcer: Black, tarry stools may indicate a hemorrhage from an ulcer of the stomach or the intestine.
  • nose: In addition, the powder from dried laurel leaves is good for stopping hemorrhage from the nose.