hemorrhage English · revision 377

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a 17th-century reformation, after French ''hémorrhagie'', of [[inh|enm|emorogie]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) [[bor|fro|emoragie]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995) [[der|la|haemorrhagia]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) [[der|grc|αἱμορραγία|tr=haimorrhagía]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) from ''haimorrhagḗs'' “bleeding violently”,^(Etymonline) from ''haîma'' “blood” and ''rhḗgnūnai'' “to break, burst”.^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) See [[hemo-]] and [[-rrhagia]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A copious discharge of blood (probably before 1425 in Barnhart; c. 1400 in Etymonline, as ''emorogie'').^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The modern form ''hemorrhage'' (British ''haemorrhage'') dates from 1671.^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)^(Etymonline) The verb, to bleed heavily, is recorded by 1882 in Etymonline and 1928 in Merriam-Webster;^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) in 1906 a London hospital chairman still objected to “haemorrhaging” as slang in medical reports.^(Etymonline) The figurative senses, a rapid and uncontrollable loss of something valuable, as in ''a financial hemorrhage'', and the verb ''to hemorrhage money'', are modern.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1400 – ''emorogie'', profuse bleeding.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1671 – ''hemorrhage''.^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)

+ * 1882 – verb, to bleed heavily.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1928 – first Merriam-Webster date for the verb.^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An excessive discharge of [[blood]] from the [[blood vessel|alt=blood vessels]]; profuse bleeding.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A rapid and uncontrollable loss of something valuable, especially money or assets.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To bleed copiously.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To lose something valuable rapidly and in large amounts, as in ''hemorrhaging money''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[hemorrhagic]]

+ * [[cerebral hemorrhage]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hematoma]]

+ * [[hematology]]

+ * [[hemoglobin]]

+ * [[hemophilia]]

+ * [[hemorrhoid]]

+ * [[anemia]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The British spelling is ''haemorrhage''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}