† ˈhæmorrhagy, hemo- Obs.
Forms: 6 emorogie, 7 hemoragie, -rogy, hemeragie, hemorragie, -gy, hæmorragy, hemorrhagie, 7–9 hæmorrhagy, hemo-. Also in Lat. form hæmorrhagia (in 7 hæmor-, hæmorragia).
[a. 16th c. F. emorogie, hemorragie, ad. L. hæmorrhagia (Pliny), a. Gr. αἱµορραγία, f. αἱµο- blood- + -ραγια, f. stem ῥαγ- of ῥηγνύναι to break, burst.]
= hæmorrhage.
[Some early forms represent med.L. emorosagia (Matth. Silvaticus, 1480):
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 151 If þer folowe emorosogie, þat is to seie, a greet flux of blood. 1562 W. Bullein Dial. Soarnes & Chir. 25 b, Amorrosage [ed. 1579, a moresage] or bleding.] |
| 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., Yf..there folowe emorogie or to great flux of blode. 1597 Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 290 Hemeragie..an issuing of the bloud in great aboundance. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 171 They have stayed the Hemoragie or bleeding at the nose. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. v. i, Hæmoragia, or bleeding at nose. 1670 Phil. Trans. XXII. 757 This Hæmorragia lasted above a day. 1717 J. Keill Anim. Œcon. (1738) 9 Observations of profuse Hæmorrhagies of the Nose. 1838 J. Bell in Cooper's Surg. Dict. 255 In the hemorrhagy of wounds, we cannot always find the artery. |