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HEMORRHAGIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to a hemorrhage
Synonyms:
haemorrhagic; hemorrhagic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)
Derivation:
hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)
Context examples:
Clinical manifestations include visual disturbances, hypopituitarism, headache, and acute hemorrhagic necrosis of the pituitary gland.
(Gonadotropin-Producing Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Purple or red hemorrhagic pinpoint spots in the skin or mucous membranes.
(Petechia, NCI Thesaurus)
It may lead to hemorrhagic shock and death.
(Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, NCI Thesaurus)
Ischemic or hemorrhagic necrosis of the pituitary gland.
(Pituitary Gland Necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)
This appears to happen minutes after a hemorrhagic stroke.
(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)
The fluid may be serous, hemorrhagic, or the result of tumor metastasis to the peritoneum.
(Ascites, NCI Thesaurus)
Synthesized and secreted locally from vascular endothelial cells; primary physiologic inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator; also inhibits urokinase; implicated in thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorders.
(Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
This genus causes influenza-like illness and rarely hemorrhagic fevers in humans.
(Phlebovirus, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinically significant bleeding—hemorrhagic stroke, bleeding in the brain, gastrointestinal hemorrhages or hemorrhages at other sites that required transfusion or hospitalization—occurred in 361 people (3.8 percent) on aspirin and in 265 (2.7 percent) taking the placebo.
(Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people, National Institutes of Health)
A hemorrhagic lymphatic lesion characterized by the presence of dilated lymphatic spaces, extravasation of red blood cells, hemosiderin deposition, and fibrosis.
(Hemolymphangioma, NCI Thesaurus)
