CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral hemorrhage mean? 

• CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE (noun)
  The noun CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE has 1 sense:

1. bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain

  Familiarity information: CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cerebral hemorrhage" is a kind of...):

bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)

Holonyms ("cerebral hemorrhage" is a part of...):

apoplexy; cerebrovascular accident; CVA; stroke (a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain)

 Context examples 

Cerebral hemorrhage may also occur.

(Cerebral Cavernous Malformation, NCI Thesaurus)