different between hemorrhage vs hematoma

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

English

Alternative forms

• haematoma
• hæmatoma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (haîma, “blood”) and -oma (“disease, morbidity”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?him??to?m?/

Noun

hematoma (plural hematomas or hematomata)

1. A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.

Translations

Further reading

• hematoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: he?ma?to?ma

Noun

hematoma m (plural hematomas)

1. (medicine) bruise (purple mark on the skin resulting from a blow)

   Synonym: (informal) roxo

Spanish

Etymology

From hemato- +? -oma, from Ancient Greek ???? (haîma, “blood”) (genitive singular ??????? (haímatos)) and -??? (-?ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ema?toma/, [e.ma?t?o.ma]
• Hyphenation: he?ma?to?ma

Noun

hematoma m (plural hematomas)

1. (medicine) bruise

   Synonyms: cardenal, moratón, moretón