word | hemorrhage |
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definition | (1) A large loss of blood from a blood vessel. (2) A rapid and uncontrollable loss or outflow. |
eg_sentence | He arrived at the emergency room reporting headache, nausea, and drowsiness, and the doctor immediately suspected that he'd suffered a brain hemorrhage. |
explanation | 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 |
IPA | ˈhɛmərɪʤ |
Tags: mwvb::unit:26, mwvb::unit:26:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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