Definitions
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- n. Plural form of haemorrhage.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haemorrhage.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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Cufflike pattern haemorrhages around small brain vessels were found in all specimens.
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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.
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Women who carry more than one child have a greater risk of miscarriage and medical complications, including anaemia, haemorrhages and high blood pressure.
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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.
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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.
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The constitutional symptoms are characterised by haemorrhages, both external and internal.
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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.
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This is the image of a young boy with keratitis (inflammation of the cornea), rhages (retinal haemorrhages) and notched incisors, also known as Hutchinsons Teeth.
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This from Reuters: A woman haemorrhages to death as she lies screaming in agony in a spartan hut in a remote region of Afghanistan.
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