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haemorrhage

1 noun
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
hae‧mor‧rhage1 British English ; hemorrhage American English [uncountable and countable]
1MI a serious medical condition in which a person bleeds a lot, sometimes inside their body:
He died of a massive brain haemorrhage.
2 when a company or country loses a lot of money or people very quickly
haemorrhage of
a haemorrhage of jobs from the region
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