hemorrhagic stroke

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Etymology

From haemorrhage + -ic + stroke; 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

hemorrhagic stroke (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhagic strokes)

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

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