HEMORRHAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hemorrhage mean? 

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

1. the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel

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

• HEMORRHAGE (verb)
  The verb HEMORRHAGE has 1 sense:

1. lose blood from one's body

  Familiarity information: HEMORRHAGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMORRHAGE (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 ("hemorrhage" 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 "hemorrhage"):

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:

hemorrhage (lose blood from one's body)

hemorrhagic (of or relating to a hemorrhage)

• HEMORRHAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hemorrhage    ... he / she / it hemorrhages   
Past simple: hemorrhaged   
Past participle: hemorrhaged   
-ing form: hemorrhaging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose blood from one's body

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bleed; hemorrhage; shed blood

Hypernyms (to "hemorrhage" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hemorrhage"):

flow; menstruate (undergo menstruation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)

 Context examples 

A sudden loss of neurological function secondary to hemorrhage or ischemia in the brain parenchyma due to a vascular event.

(Cerebrovascular accident, NCI Thesaurus)

Splitting or dissection of an arterial wall by blood entering through an intimal tear or by interstitial hemorrhage.

(Dissecting Aneurysm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Localized atrophy of the brain parenchyma due to aging, hemorrhage, infarct, or inflammation.

(Encephalomalacia, NCI Thesaurus)

Large hemorrhages may result in coma or death.

(Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is the result of gastrointestinal hemorrhage and it may be easily seen in stool or may be identified microscopically.

(Blood in Stool, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by pleomorphism, melanin pigmentation, a high mitotic rate, necrosis, and hemorrhage.

(Central Nervous System Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The more malignant tumors tend to be solid and invasive, with areas of necrosis and hemorrhage.

(Ovarian Serous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Small foci of hemorrhage are also present.

(Ovarian Solid Teratoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common cause is hemorrhage (INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES) related to a pituitary ADENOMA (see also PITUITARY NEOPLASMS).

(Pituitary Gland Apoplexy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)