Haemorrhage Definition

haemorrhages
noun
haemorrhages

(pathology) A heavy release of blood within or from a body.

We got news that he died of a haemorrhage!
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(figuratively) A sudden or significant loss.
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verb
haemorrhages

(intransitive) To bleed copiously.

It’s haemorrhaging now!
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(figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.

The company haemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.
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Other Word Forms of Haemorrhage

Noun

Singular:
haemorrhage
Plural:
haemorrhages

Origin of Haemorrhage

  • From Latin haemorrhagia, from Ancient Greek αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagia, “a violent bleeding”), from αἱμορραγής (haimorrhagēs, “bleeding violently”), from αἷμα (haima, “blood”) + -ραγία (-ragia), from ῥηγνύναι (rhēgnunai, “to break, burst”).

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Haemorrhage Sentence Examples

  • Kidney haemorrhage and albuminuria is a constant symptom.

  • There may be haemorrhage from these vessels into the tissues.

  • The chief varieties of haemorrhage are arterial, venous and capillary.

  • In virtue of this property they are also mild haemostatics, tending to coagulate the albumens of the blood and thereby to arrest haemorrhage.

  • His stay in Leipzig came, however, to an abrupt conclusion; the distractions of student life proved too much for his strength; a sudden haemorrhage supervened, and he lay long ill, first in Leipzig, and, after it was possible to remove him, at home in Frankfort.

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HHAHAE

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