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  • Earthquakes, fires, falls from buildings and scaffolding, mishaps with tools, encounters with bandits, overturned carriages, and falls from horseback were all constant hazards, not least because without adequate emergency services, blood-loss and trauma could quickly kill.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Exhaustion, lack of sleep and food, terror and blood-loss, caught up with her in a rushing wave.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • In some cases the prey dies from the resulting trauma and blood-loss, and not from tidy bites to its throat or vital organs.

    Finally: big cat kills uncensored and uncut Darren Naish 2006

  • In some cases the prey dies from the resulting trauma and blood-loss, and not from tidy bites to its throat or vital organs.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Exhaustion, lack of sleep and food, terror and blood-loss, caught up with her in a rushing wave.

    The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007

  • Because PolyHeme has not received FDA approval, and it is only used as a substitute for blood in extreme acute blood-loss situations, obtaining it is a tedious task, Melhotra said.

    Blood substitute is surgical solution for church member 2003

  • The longer Gel stands there, the more of him will glow, representing how close he is to death by blood-loss from such a massive wound.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • It meant they'd enjoy 'finishing' with me too and sometimes that kind of situation can get out of hand: they go od for the pleasure and then it's suddenly too late; the sigmoid colon becomes too bruised or the blood-loss increases to the point where the heart starts trying to pump a vacuum.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • The opinion held respecting pernicious anaemia was, that it was so essentially different in nature to the blood-loss anaemia, that there did not exist, from

    Physiology or Medicine 1934 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • "If they'd only show themselves!" thought he, his leaden eyes closing in an overmastering lassitude, a vast swooning weakness of blood-loss and exhaustion.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

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