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Definitions: Hemorrhage |
HemorrhageNoun1. Flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels. Verb1. Lose blood from one's body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hemorrhage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Bleeding or escape of blood from a vessel. (references) |
Medicine | A copious discharge of blood from the blood vessels. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: HemorrhageSynonyms: bleeding (n), haemorrhage (n), bleed (v), shed blood (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excretion | Hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring; (egress). |
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Song Titles | Hemorrhage (In My Hands) (performing artist: Fuel) | |
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 | Photomicrograph of meninges demonstrating hemorrhage due to fatal inhalation anthrax; Mag. 500x.Credit: CDC. |  | Photomicrograph of mediastinal lymph node from a Cynomolgus monkey, ( Macaca fascicularis ). Moderate hemorrhage, necrosis, and edema are present. Giemsa stain, Mag. 125x.Credit: CDC. |
 | Autopsy of infant showing abdominal distension, intestinal necrosis and hemorrhage, and peritonitis due to perforation.Credit: CDC. |  | Marked hemorrhage in mucosa and submucosa with arteriolar degeneration.Credit: CDC. |
 | Medullary hemorrhage and necrosis.Credit: CDC. |  | Vasculitis and thrombosis with hemorrhage.Credit: CDC. |
 | Focal hemorrhage in islet of Langerhans.Credit: CDC. |  | Photomicrograph of mild meningitis along with hemorrhage and the presence of Bacillus anthracis in a case of fatal human anthrax.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Venous malformations rarely hemorrhage. (references) | |
Death usually results from intracerebral hemorrhage. (references) | ||
Adults most often experience stroke (often a hemorrhage). (references) | ||
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Mary Tyler Moore | What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood. |
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Expressions using "hemorrhage": Basal Ganglia Hemorrhage ♦ brain hemorrhage ♦ celebral hemorrhage ♦ cerebral hemorrhage ♦ Choroid Hemorrhage ♦ Eye Hemorrhage ♦ fatal hemorrhage ♦ Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage ♦ Gingival Hemorrhage ♦ intraventricular hemorrhage ♦ Oral Hemorrhage ♦ Peptic Ulcer Hemorrhage ♦ Postoperative Hemorrhage ♦ Postpartum Hemorrhage ♦ Putaminal Hemorrhage ♦ Retinal Hemorrhage ♦ Retrobulbar Hemorrhage ♦ secondary hemorrhage ♦ Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ♦ unavoidable hemorrhage ♦ Uterine Hemorrhage ♦ Vitreous Hemorrhage. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "hemorrhage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hemorragji (an issue of blood, extravasation, haemorrhage, haemorrhagia, hemorrhagia), teptisje (eruption, gush, haemorrhage, overflow, recoil, spouting), gjakrrjedhje (an issue of blood, extravasation, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نزيف دم (haemorrhage), نزف (drain, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хеморагия (haemorrhage), кръвоизлив (bleeding, extravasation, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 出血 (Bleed, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | krvácení (haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hæmorrhagi (bleeding), blødning (bleeding, colour bleeding, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hemorragie (bleeding, haemorrhage), haemorrhagia (bleeding, haemorrhage), bloeding (bleeding, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خون ریزی , خون ریزش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | verenvuoto (bleeding, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hémorragie, saignement, faire une hémorragie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | blutung (bleeding, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αιμορραγία (bleeding, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מום (bleeding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vérzés (bleed, bleeding, haemorrhage, oozing of blood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emorragia (bleeding, haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 溢血 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いっけつ (agreed, one gang, same hole, settled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emorrhagehay hemorragia (bleeding, extreme, haemorrhage, haemostatic, hemostatic), de hemofilia (haemorrhage). (various references) кровотечение (an issue of blood, bleeding, haemorrhage), кровоизлияние (extravasation, haemorrhage, haemorrhagia, hemorrhagia), геморрагия (haemorrhage). (various references) hemoragija (haemorrhagia), krvarenje (bleeding, haemorrhage). (various references) hemorragia (bleeding, haemorrhage, issue of blood). (various references) blödning (bleeding, colour bleeding, fatting up, haemorrhage, issue of blood, tinting). (various references) ส าวะที่ขา"แคลนบุคลากรหรือเงินอย่างรุนแรง (haemorrhage), การตกเลือ" (haemorrhage), ตกเลือ" (haemorrhage). (various references) kanama (bleeding, haemorrhage, loss of blood), kan kaybetme (haemorrhage, losing blood). (various references) кровотеча (bleeding, haemorrhage), крововилив (haemorrhage). (various references) sự xuất huyết (haemorrhage). (various references) gwaedlif (dysentery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hemorrhage": hemorrhaged, hemorrhages. (additional references) | |
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"Hemorrhage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haemmorhage, hamorrhage, hemmorhage, hemorrage, hemorrahge, hemorrhag. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hemorrhage" (pronounced he"merij or he"mruj) |
| 3 | -er i j | amperage, average, beverage, brokerage, leverage, pilferage, seigniorage, sewerage, stockbrokerage, underage. |
| 3 | -r u j | acreage, cartridge, miscarriage, peerage, porridge, storage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-h-m-o-r-r" | |
-3 letters: homager. | |
-4 letters: gherao, hareem, harmer, hearer, hermae, homage, meager, meagre, merger, ohmage, reamer, regear, rehear, remora, roamer. | |
-5 letters: agree, ameer, armer, armor, eager, eagre, gamer, gerah, harem, herma, homer, horah, mahoe, marge, merer, merge, morae, ogham, omega, ormer, ragee, ramee, rearm, regma, rehem, roger. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-h-m-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: hemorrhaged, hemorrhages. | |
+4 letters: thermographies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6D 6F 72 72 68 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -- --- .-. .-. .... .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101000 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e m o r r h a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006D 006F 0072 0072 0068 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42717981848474677371 |
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