noun
bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain
• Hypernyms: ↑bleeding, ↑hemorrhage, ↑haemorrhage
• Part Holonyms: ↑stroke, ↑apoplexy, ↑cerebrovascular accident, ↑CVA
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noun : the bleeding into the tissue of the brain, especially of the cerebrum, from a ruptured blood vessel — compare apoplexy
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Pathol.
hemorrhage from a blood vessel into the cerebrum, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
[1870-75]
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cerebral hemorrhage,
bleeding that results from a broken blood vessel in the brain. Blood escapes into the brain and destroys or damages the surrounding tissue, causing the victim to suffer a stroke.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.