Both Uses of
hemorrhage
in
Gifted Hands
- Many patients hemorrhaged to death in the operating room.†
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- The surgery was fairly routine, but she hemorrhaged afterward because of a lack of platelets in her blood.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(hemorrhage) severe bleeding -- typically inside the body
or:
(figurative use) to describe any rapid loss -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Hemorrhage is also used figuratively as in: The company is hemorrhaging cash.