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Definition of Bleeder
1. Noun. Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding.
Generic synonyms: Diseased Person, Sick Person, Sufferer
Derivative terms: Bleed, Haemophilic, Hemophilic
Definition of Bleeder
1. n. One who, or that which, draws blood.
Definition of Bleeder
1. Noun. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac. ¹
2. Noun. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else. ¹
3. Noun. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system. ¹
4. Noun. (UK slang derogatory) A troublesome fellow; a blighter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bleeder
1. one that bleeds [n -S] - See also: bleeds
Medical Definition of Bleeder
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bleeder
Literary usage of Bleeder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"PELIOSIS RHEUMATICA IN A bleeder. BY TD DUNK, MD, .PHYSICIAN TO THE CHESTER COUNTY
HOSPITAL, WEST CHESTER, PA. THROUGH the kindness of Dr. Okie, of Berwyn, ..."
2. Oil Engines: Details and Operation by Lacey Harvey Morrison (1919)
"Others use a simple bleeder valve. General.—If an engine using water injection is
... If an engine already installed has a manual-controlled bleeder valve, ..."
3. Steam Turbines: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise for Engineers and by James Ambrose Moyer (1914)
"Ring Valve of Curtis bleeder Turbine. FIG. 1856. Side of Diaphragm of bleeder
Turbine. ... bleeder ..."
4. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1913)
"Low-pressure Mixed-pressure and bleeder Turbines. — A prom- ing field for the
steam turbine is in its application as a secondary or «'-pressure unit in ..."
5. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"It is the rule that in a bleeder family a woman not a bleeder transmits the ...
Men who are bleeders, but whose wives are not descendants of bleeder ..."
6. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"The eldest son, III, 1, of the daughter was a bleeder from 18 up to 45 years,
... He had a son, IV, 1, who was a very bad bleeder from 18 until toward ..."
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