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A hemorrhage is a dangerous, rapid loss of blood that can quickly become life-threatening.
means A serious loss of blood from a ruptured blood vessel — or, by extension, any resource (money, support, talent) draining away fast and uncontrollably.
from From Greek haimorrhagia, fusing haima ('blood') with rhēgnynai ('to break, burst forth'). The Greeks pictured it exactly as it happens: a vessel bursting its banks. The word passed into Latin and then French before settling into English spelling with its stubbornly silent 'h' and tricky 'rrh' — a little orthographic hemorrhage of letters that refuses to stop bleeding onto the page.
- origin
- greek for blood bursting forth
- silent letters
- the h after r does nothing
- medical use
- also means financial losses, bloodlessly
- severity
- can be internal, invisible, and still lethal