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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
David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024
The first night home from the hospital, Sonny went out while his wife laid on the bathroom floor passed out from a hemorrhage.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024
In this case, it would be used to prevent me from hemorrhaging to death, the way women used to do quite often due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
—Lisa Ann Walter, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Hemorrhage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hemorrhage. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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hemorrhage
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hemorrhage
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hemorrhage
1 of 2 nounhemorrhage
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