Hemorrhage



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 出血 ( 尤指大出血)
• ［英］ n. 出血 ( 尤指大出血) ( heavy bleeding)
• ［类］ hemorrgage : bleeding / vertigo : dizziness ( 程度: 大出血 -> 流血 / 严重眩晕 -> 头昏眼花)
• ［记］ hemo ( 血) +rrhage ( 超量流出) -> 超量流血 -> 大出血

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek haimorrhagia, from haimo- hem- + -rrhagia
• Date: 1671
• 1. a copious discharge of blood from the blood vessels
• 2. a rapid and uncontrollable loss or outflow <a financial hemorrhage>
• ? hemorrhagic adjective

II. verb (-rhaged; -rhaging)

• Date: 1928
• intransitive verb
  • to undergo heavy or uncontrollable bleeding
• transitive verb
  • to lose rapidly and uncontrollably <hemorrhage money>

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