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cerebral hemorrhage

n. bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain

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Cerebral hemorrhage

A cerebral hemorrhage (also spelled haemorrhage) is a type of intracranial hemorrhage that occurs within the brain tissue. It can be caused by brain trauma, or it can occur spontaneously in hemorrhagic stroke. Non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage (or hemorrhagic stroke) is a spontaneous bleeding into the brain tissue because of rupture of blood vessels that may be caused by high blood pressure, amyloidosis, or structural weakness of blood vessel walls (aneurysms, arterio-venous malformations).

A cerebral hemorrhage is an intra-axial hemorrhage; that is, it occurs within, rather than outside, the brain tissue. The other category of intracranial hemorrhage is extra-axial hemorrhage, such as epidural, subdural, and subarachnoid hematomas, which all occur within the skull but outside of the brain tissue. There are two main kinds of intra-axial hemorrhages: intraparenchymal hemorrhage and intraventricular hemorrhages. As with other types of hemorrhages within the skull, intraparenchymal bleeds are a serious medical emergency because they can increase intracranial pressure, which if left untreated can lead to coma and death. The mortality rate for intraparenchymal bleeds is over 40%.

Usage examples of "cerebral hemorrhage".

It seems that a little girl fighting with Rowan on the playground in San Francisco had suffered a violent cerebral hemorrhage and died within a few feet of the hysterical Rowan before an ambulance could even be called.

Her father, Dwight, always a source of strength, had died in his sleep of a cerebral hemorrhage the previous October 31.

I'm sorry to say one of my med techs missed a cerebral hemorrhage, and we lost her.

And he nurtured the hope that one blessed day he would discover Karl Clocker dead, felled by a massive cardiac infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, or an alien death ray like those about which the big man was always reading.

He thought of his father, dying of a cerebral hemorrhage in a parked car in Florida.

Two years ago, Commodore Janushka, who was then assigned to the Sol System as part of the Stepmother team, died of a 'cerebral hemorrhage.

A properly pulsed power surge in a neural feed implant produced something only the closest examination could distinguish from a normal cerebral hemorrhage.

Cause of death diagnosed as massive cerebral hemorrhage, coroner's inquest held owing to appearance of bodysccond-d&amp.

Cause of death diagnosed as massive cerebral hemorrhage, coroner's inquest held owing to appearance of bodysccond-d&ree burns on skin o face and extremities, and scorched look of f clothing.

And lying there, sobbing in the vegetation, the response from headquarters curled into his pocket, the past begins to filter through Folsom in little bits and pieces, first slowly, then more rapidly like a great torrent of water pressing from some weakening point of a dam or then again possibly the image he is striving for is that of a cerebral hemorrhage, a colorful cerebral hemorrhage opening up layer after layer of capillaries in the skull, flooding the brain in fluid, the brain slowly inverting in its case, the past pouring from the brain like blood and Folsom finds himself in a clear, lighted place, a glade that must be where he had just finished fucking Nina, and now he is standing, his face distended with feeling, little pockets of emotion bulging in his face, his cheeks bloated and he looks at her down on the floor of the forest, his love, his necessity, his .