Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEM'OR-RHAGE, or HEM'OR-RHA-GY, n. [Gr. αἱμορῥαγια; αἱμα, blood, and ῥηγνυω, to burst.]

A flux of blood. The ancients confined the word to a discharge of blood from the nose; but in modern use, it is applied to a flux from the nose, lungs, intestines, &c. – Encyc.