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  • noun Plural form of haemorrhage.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haemorrhage.

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Examples

  • Cufflike pattern haemorrhages around small brain vessels were found in all specimens.

    The "Official" Bang-flop survey 2009

  • Clean hospital conditions and qualified doctors will save women from haemorrhages and infection, and yes, even from the complications that come from unsafe abortions. side note: I lived in Washington state during a boiling summer drought, and I used to buy those plastic ‘ice cubes’ made for cocktails and put them in my pillow case.

    ProWomanProLife » Back to the G8 2010

  • Cufflike pattern haemorrhages around small brain vessels were found in all specimens.

    The "Official" Bang-flop survey 2009

  • These haemorrhages are caused by sudden changes of the intravascular blood pressure as a result of a compression of intrathoracic great vessels by a shock wave caused by a penetrating bullet.

    The "Official" Bang-flop survey 2009

  • Women who carry more than one child have a greater risk of miscarriage and medical complications, including anaemia, haemorrhages and high blood pressure.

    IVF multiple birth rate drops 2011

  • These haemorrhages are caused by sudden changes of the intravascular blood pressure as a result of a compression of intrathoracic great vessels by a shock wave caused by a penetrating bullet.

    The "Official" Bang-flop survey 2009

  • The venom of the viper contains several enzymes which may possibly act synergistically to produce shock, consumption coagulopathy, spontaneous haemorrhages in the organs and tissues, acute necrosis and death.

    Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The constitutional symptoms are characterised by haemorrhages, both external and internal.

    Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The company is now splintering, even as it haemorrhages $100 million a day despite what has essentially amounted to a nationalization of its operations by the US government.

    Paul Jenkins: Does Obama Know What He Is Doing? 2009

  • And so Britain haemorrhages talent, a loss utterly un-mourned by the political elite who tend to regard folk music as culturally backward and faintly comical.

    The middle-class rip-off 2008

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