haemorrhagia

• hæmorrhagia, hemorrhagia

haemorrhagia

1. (pathology) haemorrhage
2. (pathology) Any of several hemorrhagic fevers.
3. (zoology) A former genus, Haemorrhagia, of moths belonging to the family Sesiidae, now placed in genus Hemaris in Sphingidae.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “haemorrhagia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From Ancient Greek αἱμορραγία (haimorrhagía, “a violent bleeding”), from αἱμορραγής (haimorrhagḗs, “bleeding violently”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ραγία (-ragía), from ῥηγνύναι (rhēgnúnai, “to break, burst”); see ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmĭ) for more.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hae̯.mɔrˈrʰa.ɡi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.morˈraː.d͡ʒi.a]

haemorrhagia f (genitive haemorrhagiae); first declension

1. (medical) A heavy release of blood within or from the body

First-declension noun.

• → English: hemorrhage, haemorrhage (Commonwealth English), hæmorrhage (obsolete)
• → Italian: emorragia