Crossword clues for bleeder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bleeder \Bleed"er\, n. (Med.)
One who, or that which, draws blood.
One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1756, "one who lets blood," agent noun from bleed (v.). As "one with hemophilia," from 1803.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac. 2 Anything that saps a resource produced by something else. 3 A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system. 4 (context UK slang derogatory English) A troublesome fellow; a blighter.
WordNet
n. someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding [syn: hemophiliac, haemophiliac, hemophile, haemophile]
Wikipedia
Bleeder is a 1999 Danish crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The film was a big hit in Denmark, much like Refn's previous film Pusher.
Usage examples of "bleeder".
Once I clamped off the bleeders, I had to work through the tiny forest of arterial branches, suturing the torn lymph tissue itself.
I pinned back the outer layers, cauterized two bleeders, and instructed the nurse to suction the small amount of blood from the site.
With great difficulty, I managed to get mosquito hemostats on the bleeders, but before I could tie them the girl ripped them off.
So the patterns mostly come from the bleeders and the pill-takers and the shooters.
Like the bleeders cut themselves again, and the pill-takers keep trying.
Another bleeder told me a little metal plate was supposed to keep shackles from falling on workers.
The others had gone inboard and unsuited when Quent finally finished clearing the bleeder shaft.
With great difficulty, I managed to get mosquito hemostats on the bleeders, but before I could tie them the girl ripped them off.
Bernie had cleaned up some of the blood and meconium and placed ring clamps on bleeders along the torn edges of the womb.
He emphasized his point by slamming Bleeder, one-handed, into the trunk of another nearby maple, nearly felling that one as well.
A man pushed out of the throng and pointed straight at Roddy, who, not recognizing the man, instinctively dropped his hand to Bleeder, his well-worn axe.
Two quick steps brought him right up to Drizzt and Bleeder again sliced in.
The bounty hunter recoiled, grasping at his wounded limb as Bleeder fell to the ground.
As if the trouble we're having with the dichromatism bit wasn't enough, these bleeders in Yatakang have to - ah, never mind.