Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hemorrhage

Hemorrhage , noun

[Latin haemorrhagia, Greek a"imorragi`a; a"i^ma blood + "rhgny`nai to break, burst: compare French hémorragie, hémorrhagie.]

(Medicine) Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

The blood circulates in a system of closed tubes, the rupture of which gives rise to hemorrhage.