different between epistaxis vs hemorrhage

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (epístaxis, “nosebleed”): ??? (epí, “above, over, on, upon, besides”) + ????? (stáz?, “to drip (from the nostrils)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??stæks?s/

Noun

epistaxis (plural epistaxes)

1. (medicine) nosebleed

Translations

See also

• pseudoepistaxis

Romanian

Etymology

From French épistaxis

Noun

epistaxis n (uncountable)

1. epistaxis

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (epístaxis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /epis?ta?sis/, [e.pis?t?a??.sis]

Noun

epistaxis f (plural epistaxis)

1. (pathology) epistaxis

Further reading

• “epistaxis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• (Commonwealth English) haemorrhage

Etymology

From Latin haemorrhagia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (haimorrhagía, “a violent bleeding”), from ?????????? (haimorrhag?s, “bleeding violently”), from ???? (haîma, “blood”) + -????? (-ragía), from ???????? (rh?gnúnai, “to break, burst”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?m(?)??d?/

Noun

hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages)

1. (American spelling) A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

   We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

Synonyms

• bleeding

Translations

Verb

hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhages, present participle hemorrhaging, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To bleed copiously.

   He's hemorrhaging!

2. (transitive) To lose (something) in copious quantities.

   The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.

Translations

Further reading

• hemorrhage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hemorrhage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• hemorrhage at OneLook Dictionary Search