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Definitions for hemorrhage
ˈhɛm ər ɪdʒ, ˈhɛm rɪdʒhem·or·rhage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhageverb

    the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel

  2. shed blood, bleed, hemorrhageverb

    lose blood from one's body

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Hemorrhage, Hemorrhagynoun

    A violent flux of blood.

    Etymology: αἱμοῤῥαγία; hemorragie, French.

    Great hemorrhagy succeeds the separation. John Ray.

    Twenty days fasting will not diminish its quantity so much as one great hemorrhage. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

Wikipedia

  1. hemorrhage

    Bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage or blood loss, is blood escaping from the circulatory system from damaged blood vessels. Bleeding can occur internally, or externally either through a natural opening such as the mouth, nose, ear, urethra, vagina or anus, or through a puncture in the skin. Hypovolemia is a massive decrease in blood volume, and death by excessive loss of blood is referred to as exsanguination. Typically, a healthy person can endure a loss of 10–15% of the total blood volume without serious medical difficulties (by comparison, blood donation typically takes 8–10% of the donor's blood volume). The stopping or controlling of bleeding is called hemostasis and is an important part of both first aid and surgery.

ChatGPT

  1. hemorrhage

    A hemorrhage is an instance of intense, heavy, abnormal bleeding, either internally or externally. This medical condition typically comes from a rupture or damage to a blood vessel and can occur in various parts of the body. It can be life-threatening if not promptly and adequately treated. Hemorrhages can result from injuries, medical conditions, or surgical complications.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hemorrhagenoun

    any discharge of blood from the blood vessels

  2. Etymology: [L. haemorrhagia, Gr. a"imorragi`a; a"i^ma blood + "rhgny`nai to break, burst: cf. F. hmorragie, hmorrhagie.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Hemorrhage

    Bleeding or escape of blood from a vessel.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hemorrhage in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hemorrhage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hemorrhage in a Sentence

  1. Peter Pons:

    While it is a sad reality of our time that incidents such as the Tucson shooting, the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, the Boston Marathon bombings, the attacks in Paris and Belgium, and numerous others occur resulting in large numbers of casualties, injury also occurs intentionally in the home, in the workplace and during leisure activities, for all of these reasons, it is essential that hemorrhage control join CPR as an appropriate component of every citizen's knowledge base.

  2. Ron DeSantis:

    If even a fraction of them decide that this is not something they want to do and leave, this will cause a lot of these health systems to hemorrhage.

  3. Laurence Wong:

    No one in our family has any history of acute intracerebral hemorrhage, once in a while, she would get a headache like normal people do.

  4. Gavin Naylor:

    In terms of treatment, we treat shark bite injuries as we would any other trauma with hemorrhage, pressure, tourniquet, minimize blood loss [and] treat for shock.

  5. Milton Waner:

    It’s relentless, at some stage, one or more of these vessels will rupture. Usually it’s associated with minor trauma or it can be spontaneous, and this will lead to a huge, massive hemorrhage and these hemorrhages can be fatal. In addition to this problem, Zoubir’s venous malformation was encroaching on his airway so at some point it would affect his ability to breathe.

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