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Definition: Haemorrhage |
HaemorrhageNoun1. Flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "haemorrhage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The escape of blood from the vessels; bleeding. Small haemorrhages are classified according to size as petechiae (very small), purpura (up to 1 cm), and ecchymoses (larger). The massive accumulation of blood within a tissue is called a haematoma. (references) |
Public Administration | Loss or escape of blood from blood vessels; Bleeding. Usually visible due to the bleeding of a wound, it can also be internal, occult. If in large quantities, the blood loss must be stopped and corrected. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Haemorrhage is the medical term meaning bleeding.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Haemorrhage."
Synonyms: HaemorrhageSynonyms: bleeding (n), hemorrhage (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Haemorrhage |
| Specialty definitions using "haemorrhage": apoplectic shock ♦ electrolytes ♦ intraventricular haemorrhage ♦ leukocytosis or leucocytosis ♦ trepanation. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The haemorrhage of this army was horrible. |
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| "Haemorrhage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.13% of the time. "Haemorrhage" is used about 279 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.13% | 271 | 17,854 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.43% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 279 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "haemorrhage": celebral haemorrhage ♦ cerebral haemorrhage ♦ gastric haemorrhage ♦ haemorrhage of the lungs ♦ intraventricular haemorrhage. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "haemorrhage": auto-haemorrhage. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
haemorrhage | 13 |
brain haemorrhage | 5 |
haemorrhage postpartum | 4 |
antepartum haemorrhage | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "haemorrhage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | bloeding. (various references) | |
Albanian | hemorragji (an issue of blood, extravasation, haemorrhagia, hemorrhage, hemorrhagia), teptisje (eruption, gush, hemorrhage, overflow, recoil, spouting), gjakrrjedhje (an issue of blood, extravasation, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Arabic | نزيف دم (hemorrhage), نزف (drain, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хеморагия (hemorrhage), кръвотечение (an issue of blood), кръвоизлив (bleeding, extravasation, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Chinese | 出血 (Bleed, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Czech | krvácet (bleed), krvácení (hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Danish | haemorrhagia, haemorrhagi, hæmoragi, intraperitoneal blødning (intraperitoneal bleeding), bloedning (bleed through, bleeding, soaking), blødning (bleeding, colour bleeding, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Dutch | hemorragie (bleeding, hemorrhage), bloeding (bleeding, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Finnish | hemorragia, verenvuoto (bleeding, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
French | hémorragie. (various references) | |
German | Haemorrhagie (bleeding, hemorrhage), Hämorrhagie, Intraperitonealblutung (intraperitoneal bleeding), Blutung (bleeding, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Greek | αιμορραγία (bleeding, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטף "ם, זוב "ם (bleeding), "'ר" (spilling), "מם (bleeding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vérzés (bleed, bleeding, hemorrhage, oozing of blood). (various references) | |
Italian | emorragia (bleeding, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 出血 (bleeding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅっけつ (bleeding, presence or absence). (various references) | |
Manx | roie folley (bleed, bleeding). (various references) | |
Norwegian | blødning. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aemorrhagehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hemorragia intraperitoneal (intraperitoneal bleeding), hemorragia (bleeding, extreme, haemostatic, hemorrhage, hemostatic), perda de sangue, de hemofilia (hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Romanian | hemoragie (bleeding, flux, issue). (various references) | |
Russian | кровотечение (an issue of blood, bleeding, hemorrhage), кровоизлияние (extravasation, haemorrhagia, hemorrhage, hemorrhagia), геморрагия (hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krvarenje (bleeding, hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Spanish | hemorragia (bleeding, hemorrhage, issue of blood). (various references) | |
Swedish | hemorragi, blödning (bleeding, colour bleeding, fatting up, hemorrhage, issue of blood, tinting). (various references) | |
Thai | ส าวะที่ขา"แคลนบุคลากรหรือเงินอย่างรุนแรง (hemorrhage), การตกเลือ" (hemorrhage), ตกเลือ" (hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Turkish | kanama (bleeding, hemorrhage, loss of blood), kan kaybetme (hemorrhage, losing blood). (various references) | |
Ukranian | кровотеча (bleeding, hemorrhage), крововилив (hemorrhage). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xuất huyết (hemorrhage). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-h-m-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: hemorrhage. | |
-3 letters: aerogram. | |
-4 letters: aarrghh, homager. | |
-5 letters: aarrgh, agorae, gherao, graham, hareem, harmer, hearer, hermae, homage, meager, meagre, merger, ohmage, reamer, regear, rehear, remora, roamer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 65 6D 6F 72 72 68 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- . -- --- .-. .-. .... .- --. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101000 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a e m o r r h a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0065 006D 006F 0072 0072 0068 0061 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4267717981848474677371 |
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