haemorrhage
noun/ˈhemərɪdʒ/
/ˈhemərɪdʒ/
(British English) (North American English hemorrhage)
- [countable, uncountable] a medical condition in which there is severe loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel inside a person’s body
- a massive brain/cerebral haemorrhage
- He was checked for any signs of haemorrhage.
- The patient died from acute cerebral haemorrhage.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- massive
- severe
- fatal
- …
- have
- suffer
- die from
- …
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- [countable, usually singular] haemorrhage (of somebody/something) a serious loss of people, money, etc. from a country, a group or an organization
- Poor working conditions have led to a steady haemorrhage of qualified teachers from our schools.
- The newspaper sold its websites in a bid to stem the haemorrhage of cash from the business.
Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun): alteration of obsolete haemorrhagy, via Latin from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima ‘blood’ + the stem of rhēgnunai ‘burst’.
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