HEMORRHAGIC STROKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hemorrhagic stroke mean? 

• HEMORRHAGIC STROKE (noun)
  The noun HEMORRHAGIC STROKE has 1 sense:

1. stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain

  Familiarity information: HEMORRHAGIC STROKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMORRHAGIC STROKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

haemorrhagic stroke; hemorrhagic stroke

Hypernyms ("hemorrhagic stroke" is a kind of...):

apoplexy; cerebrovascular accident; CVA; stroke (a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain)

bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)

 Context examples 

The researchers showed the iron binding protein lactoferrin may protect the brain from intracerebral hemorrhagic strokes.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

Clinically significant bleeding—hemorrhagic stroke, bleeding in the brain, gastrointestinal hemorrhages or hemorrhages at other sites that required transfusion or hospitalization—occurred in 361 people (3.8 percent) on aspirin and in 265 (2.7 percent) taking the placebo.

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

This appears to happen minutes after a hemorrhagic stroke.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

In this study, the researchers suggested that after a hemorrhagic stroke the brain secretes high levels of IL-27, which leads to a second wave of neutrophils arriving with granules filled with higher amounts of healing molecules.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)