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Definition of Bleeding
1. Noun. The flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel.
Generic synonyms: Harm, Hurt, Injury, Trauma
Specialized synonyms: Haemorrhagic Stroke, Hemorrhagic Stroke, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Blood Extravasation, Hyphema, Metrorrhagia, Epistaxis, Nosebleed, Ulemorrhagia
Derivative terms: Bleed, Haemorrhagic, Hemorrhage, Hemorrhagic
Definition of Bleeding
1. a. Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.
2. n. A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.
Definition of Bleeding
1. Verb. (present participle of bleed) ¹
2. Adjective. (UK slang) extreme, outright. ¹
3. Adverb. (UK slang) Extremely. ¹
4. Noun. The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bleeding
1. the act of losing blood [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bleeding
1. Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion. A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bleeding
Literary usage of Bleeding
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.) (1916)
"bleeding from vagina and gums stopped three days ago. February 28. ... bleeding not
checked. March 10. Guaiac test on stool negative. Spots on skin fading. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"When this bleeding is spontaneous it comes from the mucous membranes, ...
bleeding from an artery is of a bright red colour, and escapes from the end of the ..."
3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard M. Jones (1918)
"THE FLOWER OF LOVE LIES bleeding I met a little maid one day, All in the bright
May weather; She danced, and brushed the dew away As lightly as a feather. ..."
4. Domestic Medicine; Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by by William Buchan (1798)
"... the great point is to determine whether it ought to be flopped or not. It is
a common practice to flop the bleeding, ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"In the other case there was never seen any profuse bleeding from either ureter,
and in spite of a nephrectomy for supposed tuberculosis there have been two ..."
6. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"Then the middle meningeal artery was visible, actively bleeding and torn off,
... No bleeding recurred. A small piece of gauze was kept in the superficial ..."
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