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Date: 1400-1500
Language: French
Origin: hémorrhagie, from Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek, from haima ( HEMO-) + -rrhagia 'bursting out, flow'

hemorrhage

 noun
     
hem‧or‧rhage [uncountable and countable]
x-ref the American spelling of haemorrhage
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