bleeding out
Fatal blood loss
Bleeding out is dying from blood loss, typically from a severe wound.
The phrase emphasizes the gradual, fatal process: He was bleeding out on the sidewalk when paramedics arrived.
In medical contexts, it describes hemorrhaging that will prove fatal without intervention.
Figuratively, bleeding out can describe any slow, draining loss: The company was bleeding out cash.
- exsanguinationSevere, fatal blood loss
- blood lossDepletion of vital fluid
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
- medicalOf healthcare practice
losing blood · cutting · pressure bandage · emotional exhaustion · triage · financial loss · trauma · laceration · stab wound · gunshot wound · tourniquet · anemia · blood pooling · emergency surgery · hematoma · dying · first aid kit · battlefield medicine
- bloodblood, plasma, platelet, platelets, red blood cell
- deathsnatural death, violent death, sudden death, accidental death, tragic death
- game butcheringfield dressing, gutting, skinning, quartering, butchering
- fluid movementflowing, pouring, dripping, draining, oozing
- dyingdying, expiring, passing, passing away, perishing
- vascular emergenciesheart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism, DVT, deep vein thrombosis
bleeding outclotting
Blood solidifying process
coagulating · hemostasis · stanching · staunching · coagulation
bleeding outrecovering
Regaining health or strength
stabilizing · pulling through · coming back · healing · surviving
bleed, bleeding, bleeder, bleeders, bleeds, bled, bloody, bloodied, bloodily