HAEMORRHAGE


Meaning of HAEMORRHAGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ hemərɪdʒ ]

( haemorrhages, haemorrhaging, haemorrhaged)

Note: in AM, use 'hemorrhage'

1.

A haemorrhage is serious bleeding inside a person’s body.

Shortly after his admission into hospital he had a massive brain haemorrhage and died...

These drugs will not be used if hemorrhage is the cause of the stroke.

N-VAR

2.

If someone is haemorrhaging , there is serious bleeding inside their body.

I haemorrhaged badly after the birth of all three of my sons...

If this is left untreated, one can actually haemorrhage to death.

VERB : V , V to n

• haem‧or‧rhag‧ing

A post mortem showed he died from shock and haemorrhaging.

N-UNCOUNT

3.

A haemorrhage of people or resources is a rapid loss of them from a group or place, seriously weakening its position.

He said the move would definitely stem the haemorrhage of talent and enterprise from the colony.

N-SING : N of n

4.

To haemorrhage people or resources means to lose them rapidly and become weak. You can also say that people or resources haemorrhage from a place or organization.

Venice is haemorrhaging the very resource which could save it: its own people...

The figures showed that cash was haemorrhaging from the conglomerate.

VERB : V n , V from n

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