severe bleeding
Life-threatening blood loss
Severe bleeding is blood loss serious enough to require immediate medical attention—the kind that soaks through bandages, won't stop with pressure, or spurts rhythmically from an artery.
The phrase appears in first aid instructions, warning labels, and emergency contexts: Call 911 if you experience severe bleeding.
Distinguished from minor cuts or scrapes that stop on their own.
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- blood lossDepletion of vital fluid
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
- woundCoiled, or an injury
losing blood · gushing · tourniquet · apply pressure · artery · transfusion · emergency · emergency room · clotting · pressure · gauze · fatal · pale · shock · pulse · vein · laceration · crimson
- OB emergencieseclampsia, preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy, HELLP syndrome
- emergencies911, ambulance, emergency, emergency room, ER
- maternal complicationspostpartum hemorrhage, eclampsia, preeclampsia, uterine atony, endometritis