BLEEDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bleeding mean? 

• BLEEDING (noun)
  The noun BLEEDING has 1 sense:

1. the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel

  Familiarity information: BLEEDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLEEDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage

Hypernyms ("bleeding" 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 "bleeding"):

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:

bleed (lose blood from one's body)

 Context examples 

Hemophilia is a rare bleeding disorder in which blood doesn’t clot normally.

(Gene Therapy Used to Treat Hemophilia, NIH)

When the body doesn’t make enough platelets, it increases the risk of bruising and bleeding.

(An overlooked role for lungs in blood formation, NIH)

A study warned that women with low levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, sometimes called "bad cholesterol," may face an increased risk of bleeding stroke.

(Low Levels of Bad Cholesterol Increase Stroke Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Signs and symptoms include mucosal ulceration, pain, bleeding, weight loss, neck swelling, and difficulty speaking, chewing, and swallowing.

(Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by bleeding from the mouth.

(Oral Hemorrhage, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

"When will he come? When will he come?" I cried inwardly, as the night lingered and lingered—as my bleeding patient drooped, moaned, sickened: and neither day nor aid arrived.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Heart disease and stroke accounted for 19 percent of the deaths and major bleeding for 5 percent.

(Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people, National Institutes of Health)

It usually follows blunt trauma and bleeding in the deep soft tissues.

(Myositis Ossificans, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by bleeding from the ovary.

(Ovarian Hemorrhage, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Injectable hydrogels are promising materials for achieving hemostasis in case of internal injuries and bleeding, as these biomaterials can be introduced into a wound site using minimally invasive approaches.

(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)