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.
Example Sentences
Noun The patient suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. There is a possibility of hemorrhage with the procedure. Verb The patient began to hemorrhage after the surgery.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
It was conceived as a proxy to protect pregnant women, who even today are twice as likely to die by violence than from hemorrhage or preeclampsia.Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022 Vaught’s attorney noted that Murphey’s death certificate originally identified both intracerebral hemorrhage and cardiac arrest as her cause of death, according to WZTV. Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 14 May 2022 The coroner determined Short died of hemorrhage and shock from a concussion and facial lacerations. Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022 That's where Michaels was treated in 2010 for a brain hemorrhage and again in 2011 for a procedure to close a hole in his heart. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2022 Non-Hispanic Black women are 3.5 times more likely to die in pregnancy and postpartum than their non-Hispanic white counterparts, typically from issues like heart failure, blood pressure disorders, and hemorrhage. Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022 Doctors removed part of Cheryl’s brain to make room for the swelling caused by the hemorrhage. Stephanie Mansfield, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022 In 2015, Smith underwent surgery for a hemorrhage on their vocal cords. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2022 The pills are 98% effective with a hemorrhage complication rate of less than 0.5% percent. Katherine Moncure, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
Verb
Data also shows racial gaps in specific causes of death: Black women are five times more likely to die from heart failure after childbirth and twice as likely to hemorrhage, or severely bleed. Emma Hinchliffe And Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune, 8 July 2022 In rarer cases women can hemorrhage or become infected. Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 4 July 2022 An unsafe Baltimore County will hemorrhage residents to other jurisdictions. David Marks, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022 In some cases, the blood vessels in the eyes themselves hemorrhage.Outside Online, 11 June 2018 Company officials also said their direct-to-consumer business—primarily comprised of Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+—continues to hemorrhage cash. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 12 May 2022 In 2020, Pollstar, a publication that covers the concert industry worldwide projected the live music industry would hemorrhage $30 billion in revenue because of the pandemic. Palak Jayswal | Special To The Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2021 The Dolphins offense was bleeding, openly and chaotically, and the season about to hemorrhage in a messy manner as Sunday stumbled to an ugly end with a few minutes left in the fourth quarter. Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021 But with a defense on track to hemorrhage the most yards in league history and a run game wracked by injuries, these 'Hawks will struggle to end the year in gratifying fashion. Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagia, from haimo- hem- + -rrhagia