hemorrhage
Noun
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The flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel (synset 114311737)
is a type of: harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.subtypes:
- haemorrhagic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke - stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain
- cerebral hemorrhage - bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain
- blood extravasation - the leakage of blood from a vessel into tissues surrounding it; can occur in injuries or burns or allergic reactions
- hyphema - bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye
- metrorrhagia - bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer)
- epistaxis, nosebleed - bleeding from the nose
- ulemorrhagia - bleeding of the gums
same as: bleeding, haemorrhage
Verb
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Lose blood from one's body (synset 200074587)
subtypes: flow, menstruate - undergo menstruationsame as: bleed, shed blood
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