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haemorrhage

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cerebral haemorrhage (= bleeding in the brain ) ▪ a cerebral haemorrhage COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE cerebral ▪ There was no difference between the aspirin and placebo groups in the incidence of cerebral ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see hemorrhage ; also see æ .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessels [syn: bleeding , hemorrhage ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Haemorrhage is a five-piece goregrind band from Madrid , Spain . Formed in 1990 as Devourment , Haemorrhage began its life as a trio, with Jose on bass and vocals, Luisma on guitar, and Emilio on drums, though this only lasted until the summer of 1991, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British spelling pathology English) A heavy release of blood within or from a body. 2 (context figurative English) A sudden or significant loss vb. 1 (context British spelling intransitive English) To bleed copiously. 2 (context transitive ...

Usage examples of haemorrhage.

Dioscorides advised that it should be applied externally for sores of every kind, and taken internally against haemorrhages.

US prestige could not have been greater, the Soviet Union was haemorrhaging in Afghanistan and the corridors of power buzzed with news of the famed Star Wars initiative with which the Pentagon intended to militarize space.

She told me that my haemorrhage would little by little leave me, provided I should never disclose to any one what she had done to cure me, and she threatened me, on the other hand, with the loss of all my blood and with death, should I ever breathe a word concerning those mysteries.

There'll be a contraction of the bladder, bone fractures that won't mend, inflammation of the kidneys, liver, spinal cord and heart, bronchopneumonia, thrombosis, cancer and aplastic anaemia which will lead to subcutaneous haemorrhaging - in other words you'll bleed to death under the skin.

It has been used to arrest haemorrhage from the lungs or alimentary tract, but this property is not assigned to it in modern medicine.

Shock, loss of blood through catastrophic internal haemorrhage, cardiac failure, fractured skull.

I examined him, and came to the conclusion that death had been caused by a blow on the back of the neck, dislocating the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae, bruising the spinal cord and producing internal haemorrhage and partial paralysis of the brain.

I mean, people are dying of coronary thrombosis or cerebral haemorrhage or things of that kind all the time nowadays.

It has also been employed in the treatment of internal haemorrhage, in inflammatory diseases, in delirium tremens, in epilepsy, in acute mania and various other diseases, with real or supposed benefits.

A sharp object penetrated the frontal lobe -here - and pierced the meninges and caused a haemorrhage.

Back home there's a guy who works in my nearest off-licence: he's got a conk like a haemorrhaged strawberry.

At three minutes past midnight, while doctors fussed over broken toe, Vanita had haemorrhaged and died.

An eight-metre section of the hull buckled upwards, and a volcanic geyser of deuterium haemorrhaged out towards the stars past shredded fingers of silicon.

Nausea, maybe, diarrhoea, dizziness, tinnitusthat's ringing in the earsbreathing difficulties, gastric haemorrhages, oedema of gastric mucosa, possible rupture of the oesophagus.

In a person of that age, consequent upon such a shock and localised haemorrhages, I suppose a brain haemorrhage` He stopped, realising what he had said.