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Hemorrhagic
(redirected from hemorrhagic shock)

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hem·or·rhage  (hmr-j)
n.
1. Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels; profuse bleeding.
2. A copious loss of something valuable: a hemorrhage of corporate earnings.
v. hem·or·rhaged, hem·or·rhag·ing, hem·or·rhag·es
v.intr.
1. To bleed copiously.
2. To undergo a rapid and sudden loss: a gubernatorial candidate whose popularity hemorrhaged after a disastrous debate.
v.tr.
To lose (something valuable) rapidly and in quantity: The company was hemorrhaging capital when it was bought by another firm.
[From obsolete hemoragie, emorogie, from Middle English emorogie, from Old French emoragie, from Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagi : haimo-, hemo- + -rrhagi, -rrhagia.]
hemor·rhagic (hm-rjk) adj.
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Adj.1.hemorrhagic - of or relating to a hemorrhage
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