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nosebleed

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Word definitions for nosebleed in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A haemorrhage from the nose.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. bleeding from the nose [syn: epistaxis ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For months on end she suffered frequent nosebleeds and nearly passed out on several occasions. ▪ Fortunately a younger boy had a dramatic nosebleed which distracted his house-mates' attention and covered any remaining smears ...

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Nosebleed or similar may refer to: A nosebleed (epistaxis) Nosebleed section , the highest seats of a public arena Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds aka The Nosebleeds, a British punk rock band of the 1970s A movie called Nosebleed which was cancelled because ...

Usage examples of nosebleed.

The stun bunny left her with a persistent nosebleed and an eternal throbbing headache, and every time the van hit a chuckhole, her head bounced on the Corrugated steel floor.

HAD HIS HAND clamped over his face, trying to staunch his nosebleed when cries from the crowd of norms below caught his attention-not cries of pleasure at his pain and suffering, but cries of terror.

She let Desdemona worry about the diaper rashes and whooping coughs, the earaches and nosebleeds.

PC Westerman who suffered occasional gushing nosebleeds and noticed physical misfortune more than most others.

Tanner had suffered one of his sporadic nosebleeds during the period of blackout.

How often I was overcome by sleep as she auscultated my small, supposedly sick body: a light sleep born of the folds of white fabrics, a sleep shrouded in carbolic acid, a dreamless sleep except that sometimes in the distance her brooch expanded into heaven knows what: a sea of banners, the Alpine glow, a field of poppies, ready to revolt, against whom, Lord knows: against Indians, cherries, nosebleed, cocks' crests, red corpuscles, until a red occupying my entire field of vision provided the background for a passion which then as now was self-evident but not to be named, because the little word "red" says nothing, and nosebleed won't do it, and flag cloth fades, and if I nonetheless say "red," red spurns me, turns its coat to black.

It seats twenty thousand, which means the cheap seats are in a different postal zone, and high enough for a nosebleed.

Waddell's nosebleed was due to the Valsalva maneuver, or an abrupt increase in intrathoracic pressure.

Then the South Americans clobbered one of my couriers last week and my insurance rates are already so high I get a nosebleed just okaying the checks.

He flailed wildly with one propellerlike arm, caught the ladder once more in the nick of time, and resumed his ascent--a brief nosebleed to add to his troubles.

She has published two previous young adult novelsDying for Ice Cream, and Tales From Hastings High: Nosebleeds and Burned Hairand a contemporary romance, Love's Prisoner, which will debut in Secrets 6 from Red Sage Publishing.

When I came off him I was shook up inside and had a nosebleed, but I got off when I was good and ready and from that time on Sate knew who was wearing the pants.