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haemorrhage noun [ ˈhɛmərɪdʒ ]

• an escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel.
• "a massive haemorrhage of the brain"

haemorrhage verb

• (of a person) suffer a haemorrhage.
• "he had begun haemorrhaging in the night"
Origin: late 17th century (as a noun): alteration of obsolete haemorrhagy, via Latin from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima ‘blood’ + the stem of rhēgnunai ‘burst’.


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