hemorrhage
Uncontrolled blood loss
Hemorrhage is severe, uncontrolled bleeding—blood escaping rapidly from ruptured vessels.
The term applies to internal bleeding a brain hemorrhage or external wounds.
Figuratively, hemorrhage describes rapid, damaging loss: The company was hemorrhaging cash.
As a verb, to hemorrhage is to bleed profusely or lose something at an alarming rate.
Lose vital fluid
- bloodlettingTherapeutic withdrawal of fluid
- exsanguinationSevere, fatal blood loss
- blood lossDepletion of vital fluid
- oozeSeep gradually out
Lasting psychological wound
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- life-threateningRisking death
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
stabilize · triage · paramedics · ambulance · transfusion · tourniquet · pressure · surgery
Blood collected outside vessels
- anemiaRed cell deficiency
- plateletBlood's clotting fragment
- coagulationLiquid solidifying into mass
- hemostasisProcess that stops bleeding
transfusion · petechiae · purpura · anticoagulant · disseminated · intracranial · subarachnoid · subdural
Channel for wastewater
- lossBeing without something
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- outflowFluid exiting a system
- depletionReduction of supply
attrition · flight · talent drain · brain drain · capital flight · money pit · resource drain · staff turnover
bleed
Lose vital fluid
- bloodlettingTherapeutic withdrawal of fluid
- exsanguinationSevere, fatal blood loss
- blood lossDepletion of vital fluid
ooze · seep · gush · spurt · flow · drain · trickle · drip · weep · discharge
trauma
Lasting psychological wound
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- life-threateningRisking death
resuscitation · stabilize · triage · paramedics · ambulance · transfusion · tourniquet · pressure · surgery · intervention
hematoma
Blood collected outside vessels
- anemiaRed cell deficiency
- plateletBlood's clotting fragment
- coagulationLiquid solidifying into mass
hemostasis · transfusion · petechiae · purpura · anticoagulant · disseminated · intracranial · subarachnoid · subdural · epidural
drain
Channel for wastewater
depletion · attrition · flight · talent drain · brain drain · capital flight · money pit · resource drain · staff turnover · erosion
- tricky spellingsaccommodate, acknowledge, acquaintance, acquire, bureau
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- stroke riskshypertension, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, smoking
- bleeding
- brain pathologyneurodegeneration, demyelination, atrophy, lesion, necrosis
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
hemorrhagehemostasis
Process that stops bleeding
coagulation · clotting · vasoconstriction · transfusion · infusion
- brain hemorrhageBleeding within the cranium
- hemorrhagic shockOrgan failure from severe bleeding
- cerebral hemorrhageBleeding within the brain
- hemorrhagic feverViral syndrome with bleeding
- hemorrhagic strokeBrain damage from bleeding
- postpartum hemorrhageLife-threatening bleeding after delivery