TinyPixie  +  880810 Mon, 31 Aug 09 09:23 AM Hi again! My question is whether there is a difference between haemorrhage and bleeding (such as intensity of the event, e.g. haemorrhage is of minor intensity and bleeding is more volumous). If not, what would be the term for a minor bleeding? Thanks! TinyPixie Joined on Thu, Aug 27 2009 Russia New Member 32 Difference Between, Styles

	Yoong Liat  +  880956 Mon, 31 Aug 09 11:57 AM Hi TinyPixie The following should be a satisfactory reply to your questions. A haemorrhage is serious bleeding inside a person's body.            Shortly after his admission into hospital he had a massive brain haemorrhage and died...            These drugs will not be used if hemorrhage is the cause of the stroke.    When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness.            His head had struck the sink and was bleeding...            She's going to bleed to death!   When a thick or sticky liquid oozes from something or when something oozes it, the liquid flows slowly and in small quantities.            He saw there was a big hole in the back of the man's head, blood was still oozing from it... (Collins Cobuild Dictionary) Yoong Liat Joined on Mon, Sep 4 2006 Veteran Member 6,757

	Clive  +  881212 Mon, 31 Aug 09 04:12 PM Hi, I'm not a doctor, but I'm not so sure that 'haemorrhage' refers only to internal bleeding. Have a look here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding   Note that the term 'haemorrhage' is not commonly used by non-medical people in everyday English. We speak of 'bleeding'.   Clive Clive Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Canada Veteran Member 29,585 El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages

	Avangi  +  921567 Tue, 29 Sep 09 11:04 AM TinyPixie “ haemorrhage is of minor intensity and bleeding is more volumous). If not, what would be the term for a minor bleeding?” Just, "bleeding." Avangi Joined on Mon, Nov 19 2007 Veteran Member 8,172 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier

	MrPernickety  +  921584 Tue, 29 Sep 09 11:21 AM Also, "to bleed" is a poetic verb compared to "to hemorrage". For instance, we say "my heart bleeds for our troops in Iraq". You certainly can't say "my heart haemorrages for them" MrPernickety Joined on Sat, Oct 25 2008 Regular Member 731 Amendment XXX to the US Constitution: No man shall be held accountable for any promise he makes while drunk unless it was a bet.

	TinyPixie  +  921591 Tue, 29 Sep 09 11:30 AM My heart bleeds for the Iraqi... anyway, thanks! I am interested in the use of these two words in scientific texts. TinyPixie

	Avangi  +  923644 Wed, 30 Sep 09 07:36 PM MrPernickety “ You certainly can't say "my heart haemorrages for them" ”   Aha!  But you can  say, "The company is hemorraging capital." BTW, I think "hemorraging" carries a sense of urgency, or imminent peril, which is not present in "bleeding," absent context   -   both in professional medical use and otherwise. Avangi

	Avangi  +  923648 Wed, 30 Sep 09 07:49 PM TinyPixie “My heart bleeds for the Iraqi... anyway, thanks! I am interested in the use of these two words in scientific texts.” Likewise. My doctor recently described an event in which I was hemorraging fresh blood from my stomach directly through my entire lower GI tract, as a "brisk bleed." Of course, this was not a scientific text. Avangi