hemorrhage

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And the reason for the hemorrhage, according to what the physicians said, was that the blow had severed the muscle, not directly from the front, but by a slanting cut.

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  1. noun Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels; profuse bleeding.
  2. noun A copious loss of something valuable: a hemorrhage of corporate earnings.
  3. intransitive verb To bleed copiously.
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  • In the meantime, for 45 minutes, the hemorrhage is getting bigger in my left hemisphere. —  Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight
  • And the reason for the hemorrhage, according to what the physicians said, was that the blow had severed the muscle, not directly from the front, but by a slanting cut. —  Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
  • No blood issued from the wound--the hemorrhage was all internal. —  Snarleyyow
  • The quantity of blood thus effused did not appear to be very great: but as the hemorrhage was from a vessel so near the heart, and the blood was consequently lost in a very short time, it produced death sooner than would have been effected by a larger quantity of blood lost from an artery in a more remote part of the body. —  The Death of Lord Nelson
  • Complications include conditions such as hemorrhage, internal bleeding and infections. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. From obsolete hemoragie, emorogie, from Middle English emorogie, from Old French emoragie, from Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagiā : haimo-, hemo- + -rrhagiā, -rrhagia.
 

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