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A hemorrhage usually results from either a severe blow to the body or from medication being taken for something else. Though many hemorrhages aren't particularly serious, those that occur in the brain (cerebral hemorrhages) can be life-threatening. In older people, hemorrhages are often caused by blood-thinning medication taken to prevent heart attacks. A bruise (or hematoma) is a hemorrhage close enough to the surface of the skin to be visible. Hemorrhage is also a verb, which isn't always used to talk about actual blood; thus, we may hear that a business is hemorrhaging money, or that the U.S. has been hemorrhaging industrial jobs for decades. Be careful when writing hemorrhage; it's not an easy word to spell.
Examples of hemorrhage in a Sentence
Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
The infant was transferred to Stanford Medical Center; an exam revealed two brain bleeds, brain swelling and retinal hemorrhages consistent with shaken baby syndrome, according to the district attorney’s office.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
In 2010, the Poison musician suffered a brain hemorrhage that could have killed him.
—Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
By the time her mother arrived, the teenager was unconscious and in serious condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage, per the Los Angeles Times.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
She was awarded a patent for developing software that assesses the risk of postpartum hemorrhage.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
During her time as an engineer at Oracle Health, she was awarded a patent for developing software that assesses the risk of postpartum hemorrhage.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Mar. 2024
Initial necropsy findings released the day after what onlookers described as a deadly building strike suggested Flaco had sustained an acute traumatic injury to his body, with signs of substantial hemorrhage under his sternum and in his back near his liver.
—Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Medical staff at a Tulsa hospital reported the infant suffered fractures in the skull, jaw, ribs and legs, bruising on his head and a subconjunctival hemorrhage, according to police.
—Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2024
But like many other tech startups, Trump Media is hemorrhaging money, with its losses mounting to $49 million during that same period last year.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
Biden has hemorrhaged support among younger Black and Latino voters, that poll has found.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Specifically, the video game industry has been seeing jobs hemorrhage from 2023 into this year as well, with Epic Games cutting 830 jobs last September and Tencent’s Riot Games laying off 11% of its workforce in January.
—Michael Nam, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
Kira died of hemorrhaging, becoming one of the over 700 pregnant women in the United States who die annually, during labor, or more commonly in the period following delivery.
—Pamela Appea, Parents, 9 Mar. 2024
Subarachnoid hemorrhages The sudden, unusually severe headache Byous experienced is typical of a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a bleed from a ruptured aneurysm (a weakened blood vessel), with blood collecting around the brain.
—Judy Stone, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
At the time of his death, Neely's neck also suffered bruises, scrapes, bleeding and some of the muscles in his neck had hemorrhaged, according to the medical examiner, Wiley said.
—USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
Biden has already hemorrhaged support among Michigan’s Arab American population over his position on Israel’s war in Gaza.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Noun and Verb
Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagia, from haimo- hem- + -rrhagia
Noun
1671, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1928, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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“Hemorrhage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hemorrhage. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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hemorrhage
1 of 2 noun
hemorrhage
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hemorrhage
1 of 2 nounhemorrhage
2 of 2 intransitive verb
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