cerebral hemorrhage

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Etymology

From cerebral (from French cérébral > Latin cerebrum (brain)) + hemorrhage (from Latin haemorrhagia, 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)).

Noun

cerebral hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural cerebral hemorrhages)

  1. (medicine) heavy release of blood within the brain; condition in which ruptured blood vessel cause bleeding inside the brain

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