Past tense of hemorrhage; experienced severe or uncontrolled bleeding.
From Greek haima (blood) + rhegnynai (to burst/break). The past tense form indicates a completed action of blood vessels rupturing or bleeding.
Before modern medicine, a patient who haemorrhaged during surgery had almost no chance of survival—the invention of blood transfusions in the 1900s transformed hemorrhage from a death sentence into a survivable emergency.
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