different between hemorrhage vs infarction

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

Etymology

infarct +? -ion

Noun

infarction (countable and uncountable, plural infarctions)

1. (pathology) The process which causes an infarct.
2. (pathology) An infarct.

Derived terms

Related terms

• infarctive

Translations

Anagrams

• infraction