external bleeding
Blood leaving body
External bleeding is blood loss from a wound visible on the body's surface—cuts, lacerations, punctures, or abrasions where blood escapes through broken skin.
Distinguished from internal bleeding, where blood pools inside body cavities.
First aid focuses on direct pressure and elevation: Apply firm pressure to stop the external bleeding.
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- blood lossDepletion of vital fluid
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
gash · deep cut · cut · laceration · trauma · bandage · pressure · gauze · tourniquet · clotting · arterial · venous · oozing · gushing · crimson · sticky · pale · shock
- bleeding disordershemophilia, haemophilia
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