HÆMORRHAGE, or HÆMORRHAGY (from αἷμα, blood, and ῥῆγμα, to burst), a flux of blood arising from the rupture of a bloodvessel. The Greeks restricted the use of this term to a discharge of blood from the nose; but in modern use it is extended to a flux of blood from the nose, lungs, intestines, &c. The word is often spelled hemorrhage.