bleeding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbliːdɪŋ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
- Hyphenation: bleed‧ing
Adjective
bleeding (not comparable)
Derived terms
Adverb
bleeding (not comparable)
Noun
bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)
- The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
- Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
- (medicine, historical) bloodletting
Translations
the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel
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