blood loss
Draining of vitality
Blood loss is the depletion of blood from the body, whether through injury, surgery, or internal bleeding.
The term appears in medical contexts to describe both the event and its severity: The patient suffered significant blood loss during the procedure.
Excessive blood loss leads to shock and requires transfusion.
- exsanguinationSevere, fatal blood loss
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- pallorUnhealthy facial whiteness
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
- traumaLasting psychological wound
emergency room · lifeblood · hypotension · anemia · tachycardia · tourniquet · pressure bandage · wound management · surgery · shock · lose consciousness · artery · pulse · gauze · cut · clot · faint · dizzy
- lossesdeficit, depletion, shortage, deprivation, bereavement
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- blood processesclotting, coagulation, circulation, hemostasis, hemorrhage
- depletiondecline, deficit, shortage, exhaustion, depletion
- emergency surgeryemergency surgery, trauma care, surgical teams, surgical tools, resuscitation
- blood bankingtransfusion, crossmatch, crossmatching, phlebotomy, donor
hemostatic process
blood lossclotting
Blood solidifying process
coagulation · hemostasis · blood clotting · thrombosis · clot formation
loss, blood, bleed, bloody, bleeding, bloodline, bloodshed, bloodless, bled