hemorrhage
pronunciation
How to pronounce hemorrhage in British English:
UK ['hemərɪdʒ]
How to pronounce hemorrhage in American English:
US [ˈhɛmərɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels
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- Verb:
- lose blood from one's body
Word Origin
- hemorrhage (n.)
- c. 1400, emorosogie (modern form by 17c.), from Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagia, from haimorrhages "bleeding violently," from haima "blood" (see -emia) + rhage "a breaking," from rhegnynai "to break, burst." Related: Hemorrhagic.
- hemorrhage (v.)
- by 1882, from hemorrhage (n.). Related: Hemorrhaged; hemorrhaging. Slang in Reports: B.I.D. for "Brought in Dead" and "Dotty" are, [Mr. Sidney Holland of London Hospital] considers, permissible expressions, but he draws the line at "fitting" and "hæmorrhaging." Only such terms, he says, should be used as outside doctors will understand. We would say that on a point of such odiously bad taste he might have been much more severe. [Lavinia L. Dock, "The American Journal of Nursing," 1906]
Example
- 1. Platelets form the initial hemostatic plug whenever hemorrhage occurs .
- 2. Sex and coffee may raise risk of brain hemorrhage in some people
- 3. Mohamed died a few days later in a paris hospital , reportedly from a cerebral hemorrhage .
- 4. In diabetic retinopathy , a common cause of blindness , blood vessels hemorrhage and leak blood and fluid .
- 5. At age 26 , he suffered a gastric hemorrhage and he was hospitalized for two months .