excessive bleeding
Uncontrolled blood flow
Excessive bleeding is blood loss beyond what's normal or safe for a given situation.
The phrase appears in medical contexts describing hemorrhage that won't stop on its own or threatens health: Seek emergency care if you experience excessive bleeding after surgery.
Warning labels list it as a risk of blood thinners.
What counts as excessive depends on context—a nosebleed lasting twenty minutes differs from postpartum hemorrhage.
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- blood lossDepletion of vital fluid
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
clot · apply pressure · transfusion · pale · gushing · soaking · gauze · pressure · tourniquet · emergency · faint · dizzy · anemia · stitches · laceration · arterial · pooling · crimson
- bleeding disordershemophilia, haemophilia
- pruning mistakestopping, overpruning, bad timing, wrong timing
excessive bleedingminimal bleeding
Very little blood loss
light bleeding · spotting · paper cut · scratch · nick
excessive bleedinghemostasis
Process that stops bleeding
clotting · coagulation · thrombosis · blood clotting · clotted
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