haemorrhage

/'heməridʤ/ Cách viết khác : (hemorrhage) /'heməridʤ/

Thân thiện

A patient is being treated for a haemorrhage in the emergency room.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel: A medical term for bleeding, especially when it is severe or occurs internally.
   • A heavy or rapid loss of something valuable: Used figuratively to describe a substantial and damaging loss.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Medical):
  • The patient suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage.
  • The primary symptom was a severe haemorrhage from the wound.
• Noun (Figurative):
  • The company is trying to stop the haemorrhage of talent to its competitors.
  • The war caused a haemorrhage of the country's financial resources.

Advanced Usage

• "to haemorrhage" (Verb, often used figuratively): To lose something valuable in large amounts, rapidly, or uncontrollably.
  • The party has been haemorrhageing support since the scandal.
  • The startup is haemorrhageing cash every month.

Variants and Related Words

• Hemorrhage: The standard American English spelling of 'haemorrhage'.
• Haemorrhagic (Adjective): Relating to or involving haemorrhage.
  • Haemorrhagic fever is a serious illness.
• Haemorrhoid (Noun): A swollen vein in the region of the anus (often plural: haemorrhoids); etymologically related, meaning "a flow of blood".

Synonyms

• Bleeding: The more common, general term for the loss of blood.
• Blood loss: A descriptive phrase for haemorrhage.
• Exsanguination: Severe haemorrhage leading to a critical loss of blood.

Related Phrasal Verbs/Verb Phrases

• To bleed (out): To die from severe haemorrhage; often used literally.
  • He bled out before the ambulance arrived.
• To stem the haemorrhage: To stop or slow down a severe loss (used both literally and figuratively).
  • The new CEO's first job is to stem the financial haemorrhage.

Related Idioms

• Bleed (someone/something) dry/white: To take all the money or resources from someone or something, similar to the figurative use of 'haemorrhage'.
  • The legal fees are bleeding the company dry.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bleeding
• hemorrhage