haemorrhage
pronunciation
How to pronounce haemorrhage in British English:
UK [ˈhemərɪdʒ]
How to pronounce haemorrhage in American English:
US [ˈhemərɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels
Word Origin
- haemorrhage
- haemorrhage: [17] Haemorrhage means literally a ‘bursting forth of blood’. It comes ultimately from Greek haimorrhagíā, a compound formed from Greek haima ‘blood’ and an element derived from the same source as the verb rhēgnúnai ‘break, burst’. Haima, a word of unknown origin, has been a generous contributor to English vocabulary. Besides haemorrhage, it has given haematite [17], literally ‘blood-like stone’, a type of iron ore, haemoglobin [19], a shortening of an earlier haemoglobulin, haemorrhoid [14] (in the 16th and 17th centuries spelled emerod), literally ‘flowing with blood’, and many more.
- haemorrhage
- see hemorrhage; also see æ.