hemorrhage

English

Alternative forms

• haemorrhage (Commonwealth English)
• hæmorrhage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin haemorrhagia, from Ancient Greek αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagía, “a violent bleeding”), from αἱμορραγής (haimorrhagḗs, “bleeding violently”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ραγία (-ragía), from ῥηγνύναι (rhēgnúnai, “to break, burst”); see ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmi) for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages) (American spelling)

1. A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

   We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

2. (figurative) A sudden or significant loss

   the fiscal hemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalization

Synonyms

• bleeding
• bleed
• hemorrhea (dated, uncommon)

Derived terms

• cerebral hemorrhage
• Duret hemorrhage
• hemorrhagic, haemorrhagic

 

Related terms

• hematoma
• hemotology

Translations

release of blood; bleeding

• Arabic: نَزِيف m (nazīf), نَزْف m (nazf)
• Armenian: արյունահոսություն (hy) (aryunahosutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: кръвоизлив (bg) m (krǎvoizliv)
• Catalan: hemorràgia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出血 (zh) (chūxuè, chūxiě) (chūxiě is more colloquial)

• Czech: krvácení (cs) n, hemoragie f
• Dutch: bloeding (nl) f
• Esperanto: hemoragio
• Finnish: verenvuoto (fi)
• French: hémorragie (fr) f
• Galician: hemorraxia (gl) f
• German: Blutung (de) f
• Greek: αιμορραγία (el) f (aimorragía)

  Ancient: αἱμορραγία f (haimorrhagía), αἱμόρροια f (haimórrhoia), αἱματόρροια f (haimatórrhoia)

• Hindi: रक्तस्राव (raktasrāv)
• Ido: hemoragio (io)
• Indonesian: perdarahan (id)
• Italian: emorragia (it)
• Japanese: 出血 (ja) (しゅっけつ, shukketsu)
• Kazakh: қан құйылу (qan qūiylu)
• Khmer: ការធ្លាក់ឈាម (kaathlĕəkchiəm)
• Korean: 출혈(出血) (chulhyeol)
• Malay: pendarahan (ms)
• Malayalam: രക്തസ്രാവം (raktasrāvaṁ)
• Maori: ikura
• Mirandese: almorragie f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цус алдах (cus aldax), цус харвах (cus xarvax)

• Norman: hémorragie f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: blødning c
• Occitan: emorragia (oc) f
• Polish: krwotok (pl) m, krwawienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: hemorragia (pt) f
• Russian: кровоизлия́ние (ru) n (krovoizlijánije), кровотече́ние (ru) n (krovotečénije), геморраги́я (ru) f (gemorragíja)
• Slovak: vnútorné krvácanie (sk) n
• Slovene: krvavitev (sl) f, krvavenje n, hemoragija f
• Spanish: hemorragia (es) f
• Swedish: blödning (sv) c
• Turkish: kanama (tr)
• Welsh: gwaedlif m

Verb

hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhages, present participle hemorrhaging, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To bleed copiously.

   He's hemorrhaging!

2. (transitive, figuratively) To lose (something) in copious and detrimental quantities.

   The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.

   • 2024 May 3, Scott Peterson, “Iran’s official line on exchange with Israel: Deterrence restored”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     “That in itself is important for [Iran’s] longer game and their broader strategic objectives,” says Dr. [Sanam] Vakil. “I think they were trying to force Israel to think twice, in order to stop the hemorrhaging around the region of their individuals and of their position.”

Translations

bleed copiously

lose (something) copiously

Further reading

• “hemorrhage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “hemorrhage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “hemorrhage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.