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cerebral hemorrhage

noun

, Pathology.
  1. hemorrhage from a blood vessel into the cerebrum, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cerebral hemorrhage1

First recorded in 1870–75

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Example Sentences

The pianist would survive Kennedy by 15 years, before succumbing to a cerebral hemorrhage at age 48.

Mohamed died a few days later in a Paris hospital, reportedly from a cerebral hemorrhage.

He retained his faculties perfectly until April 23, 1918, when he died from cerebral hemorrhage.

It was a routine case, differing in no respect from what is ordinarily witnessed as a sequence of cerebral hemorrhage.

Finally, the shock of a cerebral hemorrhage is very great and its after-effects likely to be very disturbing.

These consist of abscess of the brain, meningitis, and specially cerebral hemorrhage.

His death on Sunday, July 7, of cerebral hemorrhage was alike a shock and a grief.

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