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Haemorrhage

noun

The flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel. Synonyms: bleeding, hemorrhage.

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"Haemorrhage" Quotes from Famous Books

... breath should leave my body, and I was glad to find myself again on the pillow. I was soon in a sound seep, from which I did not arouse for many hours, and, as I afterwards was told, had had a very narrow escape, from the exhaustion arising from the excessive haemorrhage. ...

— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat

... tourniquets without much success. The ordinary tourniquet is probably the most inefficient instrument that the mind of man could devise—at least, for dealing with wounds of the thigh out in the field. It might stop haemorrhage in an infant, but for a burly soldier it is absurd. I tried two of the most approved patterns, and both broke in my hands. In the end I managed to stop it with a handkerchief and a stick. I would suggest the elimination of all tourniquets, and the substitution of the humble pocket-handkerchief. ...

— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

Words linked to "Haemorrhage" : metrorrhagia, epistaxis, haemorrhagic stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, harm, trauma, ulemorrhagia, blood extravasation, hemorrhagic stroke, hurt, nosebleed, bleeding, injury, hemorrhage, hyphema, haemorrhagic