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  • First, Mr. Kleiman, our merry sunshine, had another bout of gastrointestinal hemorrhaging yesterday and will have to stay in bed for at least three weeks.   (source)
    hemorrhaging = severe bleeding
  • In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.   (source)
    hemorrhages = instances of severe internal bleeding
  • It was as good a thing for his spirit as a saline injection is for a man who has suffered a great hemorrhage.   (source)
    hemorrhage = loss of blood
  • During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.†   (source)
  • Capillaries in our retinas were spontaneously hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • They arrive at local hospitals with severe internal hemorrhaging and long scratch marks on their buttocks.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid I'd get a cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • A metal tray struck him above the eye; a corpse with hemorrhaged eyes almost tumbled him back into the ward.†   (source)
  • And their summary destruction by the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan caused museum directors and curators all over the world to have about four hemorrhages apiece.†   (source)
  • That ironic stance pervades the novel right up to the end, where mother and child, rather than existing for each other, as experience has taught us to expect, slay each other, the infant strangled by the umbilical cord, the mother dead after a series of hemorrhages.†   (source)
  • For an hour the four of us watched the effect of the cerebral hemorrhage spread slowly over her body.†   (source)
  • ') he saw her bringing the pitcher down into his face, he saw himself dying of a fractured skull and a massive cerebral hemorrhage in a freezing flood of ice-water while goose-pimples formed on his arms.†   (source)
  • She was taken to the town hospital, and there she must have hemorrhaged, for they kept her confined to her bed, a month and a half before her baby was born without life.†   (source)
  • His lower intestine was ruptured and hemorrhaged, the blood collected in his abdominal cavity.†   (source)
  • His mother asked him in alarm where in the world he had been, for they had looked everywhere for him so that he could attend General Ignacio Maria, the last grandson of the Marquis de Jaraiz de la Vera, who had been struck down that afternoon by a cerebral hemorrhage: it was for him that the bells were tolling.†   (source)
  • Many patients hemorrhaged to death in the operating room.†   (source)
  • Don't give yourself a brain hemorrhage, Jacob, I would have told him.†   (source)
  • "Years ago, you wouldn't have even known you had miscarried yet, and you would have waited until you started hemorrhaging."†   (source)
  • I'm hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • She told him about her movie star mother, Patricia Neal, and all the family tragedies—her mother's well-publicized cerebral hemorrhage and long convalescence, and currently well-publicized and angry breakup with Ophelia's father, the writer Roald Dahl.†   (source)
  • They had both hemorrhaged badly, and blood plasma was in short supply, our needs being low on the wartime priority list.†   (source)
  • Spells of passing out, and sometimes I would hemorrhage at the nose and left ear.†   (source)
  • The signal that had come through on the radio as he was driving; the stream of students running out of the school, as if it were hemorrhaging; the slip of his shoes in an oily pool of blood as he ran through the corridors.†   (source)
  • What if I began to hemorrhage?†   (source)
  • It was Ebola blood, and it had run everywhere inside the animal: there had been a lot of internal hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • He was critically injured, suffering broken ribs and severe internal hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • No matter how badly I want for everything to go slowly, time is pouring away, hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • He was arrested by the KGB, of course, and died of a brain hemorrhage soon thereafter.†   (source)
  • Instant comas, they said, rendering the bodies useless but causing massive hemorrhaging that would spread it to those nearby.†   (source)
  • The immediate cause of death may be eclampsia, hemorrhage, malaria, abortion complications, obstructed labor or sepsis.†   (source)
  • No sign of petechial hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • The guy in front of you hits a booby trap, his lower leg is blown off, he's screaming, hemorrhaging blood, and guess what?†   (source)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia.†   (source)
  • A cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Her voice was weak and gurgled as she tried to speak through the blood hemorrhaging in her lungs and throat.†   (source)
  • I'm hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • He was seared and marked as if by the random strokes of a hot poker, and his once clear gray eyes were shot with hemorrhaged vessels.†   (source)
  • She did not give in even when they transferred her to a secret clinic of the political police because one of the beatings had caused her to lose the child she was carrying and she had begun to hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • He would never watch another fist fight without fearing he was going to faint and crack his skull open on the pavement or suffer a fatal heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Hema's departures in the night came with cryptic phrases, words stranger than "version" tossed over her shoulder: "eclampsia" or "postpartum hemorrhage" or, that most chilling term of all, the "Delayed Afterbird."†   (source)
  • The liver cell started to change and then hemorrhaged.†   (source)
  • Davey Cantor had said something about a cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Hey! old connoisseur of voice sounds, of voices without messages, of newsless winds, listen to the vowel sounds and the crackling dentals, to the low harsh gutturals of empty anguish, now riding the curve of a preacher's rhythm I heard long ago in a Baptist church, stripped now of its imagery: No suns having hemorrhages, no moons weeping tears, no earthworms refusing the sacred flesh and dancing in the earth on Easter morn.†   (source)
  • You're thinking of hemorrhage?†   (source)
  • It couldn't have come from the gallery; those guns are chained and the massive hemorrhage in her neck was caused by a far larger caliber than any of the toys there.†   (source)
  • The plague sores—buboes—are lymph nodes that have been turned into necrotic, hemorrhagic tissue.†   (source)
  • We were able to patch up his side, stop all the hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • I was on the verge of a major brain hemorrhage and had to try and calm down.†   (source)
  • To cease a hemorrhaging, get a man to breathe again.†   (source)
  • An operation is performed within the month, at Staunton, but he begins to hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Finally, when the baby still wouldn't stop crying, Randall shook him so violently his brain hemorrhaged.†   (source)
  • He had come to Florida because the state was growing and his practice and fees would be larger and he thought he'd eventually accumulate enough money to offer her a cash settlement and suture the financial hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Soon the ugly little skin hemorrhages, which had plagued her all over, disappeared, but even more remarkable was the change that came over her hair.†   (source)
  • He almost hemorrhaged when he saw me looking at him.†   (source)
  • He told Dr. Edwards, "That Chink knows more about the pathology of cerebral hemorrhage than I do, and I bet as much as you do.†   (source)
  • Miscroscopic forms of cardiac hemorrhages have become very frequent in recent years.†   (source)
  • Then he hemorrhaged through the mouth.†   (source)
  • Or what if it was something ordinary, a common crisis, and she panicked, froze, failed to stop the hemorrhage in time?   (source)
    hemorrhage = excessive bleeding
  • When she saw the crimson footprints streaked across the linoleum, she fetched the homeopathic she used to treat hemorrhages and shock, called Rescue Remedy, and put twelve drops of the clear, tasteless liquid under my tongue.   (source)
    hemorrhages = instances of excessive bleeding
  • He said there was so much dirt blown into the wound that there had not been much hemorrhage.   (source)
    hemorrhage = bleeding
  • The patient continued to bleed from the bowels, and these hemorrhages were now as black as pitch.†   (source)
  • The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin.†   (source)
  • No hemorrhages or fires, but it was a surprising physical pleasure, a brief taste of freedom, to run as best she could in her starched apron to the hospital entrance.†   (source)
  • He told of the hemorrhages in the night, of Dr Clark bleeding him and prescribing "exercise and good air," and of the ultimate religious and personal despair which had led Keats to demand his own epitaph be carved in stone as: "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."†   (source)
  • Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small.†   (source)
  • Your heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity.†   (source)
  • A few days after he died, two other salaried men who worked at desks near him in the same room broke with bleeding, went into shock, and died with massive hemorrhages from the natural openings of the body.†   (source)
  • Everything had gone wrong inside this man, absolutely everything, any one of which could have been fatal: the clotting, the massive hemorrhages, the liver turned into pudding, the intestines full of blood.†   (source)
  • He had been up all night with a patient who had had heart problems, and then, the following night, he had been up most of the night with that Frenchman with hemorrhages who had come from somewhere upcountry.†   (source)
  • It was a rogue hemorrhagic, said the commentators.†   (source)
  • Some vicious Ebola or Marburg splice, one of the fortified hemorrhagics.†   (source)
  • And my brother Tom's eyes as he hemorrhaged in the night.†   (source)
  • She had some sort of hemorrhage when I was born, and it was just too risky after that.†   (source)
  • "A nine-millimeter hemorrhage, I trust," Filitov observed coldly.†   (source)
  • They didn't hemorrhage—as far as we know—they survived untouched.†   (source)
  • The organ began to break apart as its count-less cells hemorrhaged.†   (source)
  • There he found a large hemorrhage over the gray surface of the brain.†   (source)
  • Hemorrhage occurred from all orifices of the body.†   (source)
  • It is hemorrhage, and it smells like a slaughterhouse.†   (source)
  • Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips.†   (source)
  • Later he would write in his diary: There was a notable absence of any hemorrhagic component.†   (source)
  • It was a hemorrhagic nosebleed, the kind that does not stop until the heart stops beating.†   (source)
  • Your spleen had ruptured, probably—and fortunately for you—a delayed rupture, because you had signs of early hemorrhage into your abdominal cavity My colleagues from the general surgery unit had to perform an emergency splenectomy.†   (source)
  • The surgery was fairly routine, but she hemorrhaged afterward because of a lack of platelets in her blood.†   (source)
  • He was hemorrhaging in earnest now.†   (source)
  • 'Okay, don't have a hemorrhage, Tad.†   (source)
  • Cause of Death Hemorrhage, shock, coronary occlusion and/or coronary thrombosis (possible) Person identifying deceased Susan D. Snell 19 Back Chamberlain Road Chamberlain, Maine 02249 Next of kin None Body to be released to State of Maine Doctor in attendance Harold Kuebler MD Pathologist FM From the national AP ticker, Friday, June 5, 1979: CHAMBERLAIN, MAINE (AP) STATE OFFICIALS SAY THAT THE DEATH TOLL IN CHAMBERLAIN STANDS AT 409, WITH 49 STILL LISTED AS MISSING.†   (source)
  • Two others were supposedly killed in accidents — one in a plane crash, one by, of all things, a cerebral hemorrhage while hiking in the Shaoguan mountains — if it's not true, at least it's imaginative.†   (source)
  • The fact, for example, that you will die in less than twenty-one days due to massive hemorrhaging in your heart and lungs and liver.†   (source)
  • The risk of serious complications, such as bile leaks and hemorrhage, you said should be no more than twenty percent in an otherwise healthy donor.†   (source)
  • Within a day or two, vast numbers of bacteria find their way into the blood stream, resulting in fever as high as io6 degrees F, hemorrhage, and thrombosis.†   (source)
  • Their assault on the body's organs resulted in massive internal hemorrhaging and quick failure within two more days.†   (source)
  • In the caseof a sister-in-law of ours, who had miscarried and hemorrhaged, no one was able to arrest it in time, and she just bled to death in her hospital bed.†   (source)
  • The commander of the Northern Fleet had died of a cerebral hemorrhage two hours into his first interrogation in the Lubyanka, much to everyone's disappointment.†   (source)
  • Instead he came to a snap diagnosis of bowel obstruction …. or free fluid in the peritoneal cavity …. or hemorrhagic pancreatitis …. some sort of abdominal catastrophe ….†   (source)
  • But if coagulation is prevented, then the organism erodes through the vessels of the brain, and hemorrhage occurs.†   (source)
  • But if clotting were prevented in certain persons, then the organism might eat away and cause hemorrhage in those persons.†   (source)
  • If the Andromeda Strain produced hemorrhage inside the brain for any reason, then it might produce rapid, unusual mental aberrations.†   (source)
  • He had no idea what was wrong with the man, except that he was obviously having some kind of massive hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • They performed an autopsy on him, and when they opened his skull, they found a massive, fatal hemorrhage at the center of the brain.†   (source)
  • The lesions by this time were showing a pattern of marked splenomegaly [swollen spleen]—strikingly thy on cut surface, enlarged kidneys, and sporadic occurrences of hemorrhage in a variety of organs….†   (source)
  • As Karl Johnson explained to me, "I've seen young physicians run from these hemorrhagic viruses, literally.†   (source)
  • Some instinct told her that this was because she had eaten so little that the effect had been almost that of a fast; even so, she could not explain and was frightened by her loss of appetite, the fatigue, the knife-edge pains coursing down along her shins, and especially by the sudden onset of her menstrual period, arriving many days too early and with the blood flowing so copiously it was like a hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • In spite of everything they might do sepsis was almost inevitable, but now it was the shock and the hemorrhage he couldn't lick.†   (source)
  • Massive internal hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • He had slight hemorrhages in his urinary tract.†   (source)
  • Over the years, the appearance of "purple spots," tiny surface hemorrhages symptomatic of leukemia, came to be dreaded by hibakusha.†   (source)
  • He held it so that further hemorrhages from the wound would flow into the man's clothes.†   (source)
  • But he never told me about having hemorrhages.†   (source)
  • The evening before last, the American woman had two first-class hemorrhages, and that was that.†   (source)
  • Did you know he'd been gassed and that he had five hemorrhages?†   (source)
  • Dede Antanas continued to believe it, while three more hemorrhages came; and then at last one morning they found him stiff and cold.†   (source)
  • She had suffered four severe hemorrhages over the last ten days, and her parents had come here with the idea of taking her back home while she still lived; but that did not appear to be a feasible plan— the director said that poor Fraulein Gerngross ought not to be moved.†   (source)
  • But when both hemorrhages and fever persisted, he had come up here for a long-term cure, which was paid for by his order and was now into its sixth year—hardly a cure by now and more a kind of categorical form of life at rarefied heights, mitigated by his duties as a teacher of Latin at the local school for tubercular boys.†   (source)
  • Katie had such a fit of giggling that she was afraid she'd bring on a hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • I thought I'd have a hemorrhage when they pulled the Old Man out of the closet.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Elizabeth, "she went like that—one hemorrhage right after another, down here."†   (source)
  • It hurts much and there is much hemorrhage inside.†   (source)
  • The man on the stretcher over me has a hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • It seems she had one hemorrhage after another.†   (source)
  • And as she had thought it would, the hemorrhaging gradually let up; she was less braced and stiff-spread on the bed, and I was less benumbed in the muscles.†   (source)
  • Suellen was hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • What I think is you've got an internal hemorrhage there from where that thigh bone's cut around inside.†   (source)
  • Within eighteen months he was a howling maniac again, his little business went smash while his foot stayed on the polished rail, and Cynthia, his wife—whose life, the natives said, he had not helped to prolong—died suddenly one night after a hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • A few hours after the operation, a ligature of one of the blood vessels into the lung cavity gave way, and Dr. Sasaki suffered severe hemorrhaging for nearly a week.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Henry has had a hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • He was a sensitive man, and his promenades about his estate were checked by inhibited places: the cornice of the long girdling porch where a lodger had hanged himself one day at dawn, the spot in the hall where the consumptive had collapsed in a hemorrhage, the room where the old man cut his throat.†   (source)
  • He had no way to tell if internal hemorrhage still went on, but he believed that it had stopped.†   (source)
  • The danger from hemorrhage will be over.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted by hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • The clean-cut hole made by the bullet bled freely both at its entrance and where it had come out, but with no signs of hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • But they are still many now as they swarm out of it; an army of three thousand men can hemorrhage badly and still be a great teeming force.†   (source)
  • She got into such a wrangle with the saleswoman that she arrived home in a state of wild agitation, suffered a hemorrhage, and was soon diagnosed as incurable.†   (source)
  • A sudden hemorrhage alerted his superiors to the problem; after hovering for weeks between life and death and still in precarious health, he was sent back to where he started.†   (source)
  • Frau Hessenfeld tended to crying jags, Fraulein Levi took to her bed, and Frau Stohr, obstinately baring her rabbitlike teeth, announced almost hourly her superstitious fear of a sudden hemorrhage, for it was said foehn winds hastened and caused such things.†   (source)
  • The dancing would get much more lively as the evening progressed; countless patients from the various sanatoriums and patients living brazenly on their own at the Kurhaus or other hotels would join in later in much greater number than now, and many a serious case had danced his way to eternity here, first tossing back the beaker of life and then hemorrhaging one last time in dulci jubilo.†   (source)
  • How was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two skeletons in a nook of that night?†   (source)
  • Frode looked as if he were about to have a cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it hemorrhage.
  • Herr Palmgren was in critical condition following a severe cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • But death was due to a cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • He could die from a cerebral haemorrhage tonight.†   (source)
  • She suffered permanent brain damage and repeated brain haemorrhages.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it hemorrhages.
  • Palmgren had a cerebral haemorrhage a couple of years ago.†   (source)
  • Before he died there was a second bout of haemorrhaging—stomach this time.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it hemorrhaging.
  • The first in a long series of small cerebral haemorrhages had been triggered by the beating.†   (source)
  • Salander had told him nothing about her mother, but the pastor had apparently spoken to someone at the nursing home where she died, and Blomkvist understood that the cause of death was a cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • The world won't officially hear of Sheng's death for weeks, and when the announcement is made, his "sudden demise" will undoubtedly be attributed to a massive coronary or a cerebral haemorrhage, certainly not to murder.†   (source)
  • In the autopsy report, we wrote brain haemorrhage resulting from an accident, but not one of us was satisfied with that assessment.†   (source)
  • It could be scar tissue as a product of the healing process, but it could also be a minor haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • Her mother had spent ten years at Äppelviken, and it was where she finally died at only forty-six, after one last annihilating cerebral haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • The last fourteen years of Agneta Sofia Salander's life had been punctuated by small cerebral haemorrhages which left her unable to take care of herself.†   (source)
  • Their condition is hopeless, they choke to death with haemorrhages and suffocation.†   (source)
  • But the third night he calls out to us, telling us to ring, he thinks he has a haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • "The discoloration," he said, "is caused by haemorrhage into the tissues (ecchymosis) and passes from dark purple through green to yellow before it disappears."†   (source)
  • …massig durchblutet und kein Oedema', noting that she was a medium— sized female patient in good general health; that she had a compound fracture of the left tibia, with swelling of the left lower leg; that her skin and visible mucous membranes were heavily spotted with petechiae, which are haemorrhages about the size of grains of rice, or even as big as soya beans; and, in addition, that her head, eyes, throat, lungs, and heart were apparently normal; and that she had a fever.†   (source)
  • "I know, I know, I've read of that sort of thing—it's internal haemorrhage, you know.†   (source)
  • "We shall wait," said Van Helsing, "just long enough to fix the best spot for trephining, so that we may most quickly and perfectly remove the blood clot, for it is evident that the haemorrhage is increasing."†   (source)
  • She had known his wife, who had died of consumption, and who had, at the end, conceived such a violent dislike of her husband, that if he came into her room it caused her haemorrhage.†   (source)
  • The chief injury was to the skull (the very thing which Clyde in his first confession had maintained), which appeared to have been severely bruised by a blow of "some sharp instrument," unfortunately in this instance, because of the heaviness of the blow of the boat, "signs of fracture and internal haemorrhage which might have produced death."†   (source)
  • In derivatives of the Greek /haima/ it is the almost invariable American custom to spell the root syllable /hem/, but the more conservative English make it /haem/—/e. g./, in /haemorrhage/ and /haemiplegia/.†   (source)
  • Possible cerebral hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • The Riverside Press, even in books intended only for America, prefers certain English forms, among them, /anaemia/, /axe/, /mediaeval/, /mould/, /plough/, /programme/ and /quartette/, but in compensation it stands by such typical Americanisms as /caliber/, /calk/, /center/, /cozy/, /defense/, /foregather/, /gray/, /hemorrhage/, /luster/, /maneuver/, /mustache/, /theater/ and /woolen/.†   (source)
  • …of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings…†   (source)
  • By the narrator a limitation of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself and the listener had not taken place since the consummation of puberty, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9 months and 1 day during which, in consequence of a preestablished natural comprehension in incomprehension between the consummated females (listener and issue), complete…†   (source)
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