hemorrhagic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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There was Kent Brantly, 27, a family physician who, owing to the grueling hours and oppressive African heat, had lost 30 pounds even before he succumbed to hemorrhagic fevers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The team reviewed new dementia diagnoses and examined how ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes affected dementia risk among people with CAA.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026
Rwandan health authorities are working to control an outbreak of Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic disease in the same family as Ebola, that is spreading across the country.
From Salon • Oct. 3, 2024
They noted that further study is necessary to uncover the drivers of low-income countries' higher burden of temperature-related hemorrhagic stroke mortality and identify helpful interventions.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
A pathologist at the Institute had inspected the meat very carefully and had given it a tentative diagnosis of simian hemorrhagic fever—harmless to humans, lethal to monkeys.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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