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HAEMORRHAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
Synonyms:
bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("haemorrhage" is a kind of...):
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "haemorrhage"):
haemorrhagic stroke; hemorrhagic stroke (stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain)
cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain)
blood extravasation (the leakage of blood from a vessel into tissues surrounding it; can occur in injuries or burns or allergic reactions)
hyphema (bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye)
metrorrhagia (bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer))
epistaxis; nosebleed (bleeding from the nose)
ulemorrhagia (bleeding of the gums)
Derivation:
haemorrhagic (of or relating to a hemorrhage)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb haemorrhage