Hemorrhage

bleeding from the heart, arteries, capillaries, or veins, capillary hemorrhage being the commonest form. Generally though not invariably the ve els are ruptured. In a solid organ it is called an extravasation, hemorrhagic infraction (in embolism), or apoplexy. Hemorrhage from the nose is known as epistaxis; from the lungs, hemoptysis; from the stomach, hsematemesis; from the female organs, menorrhagia; from the urine, hematuria; from the bowels, melena, Heemus, in ancient geography, the name applied to that part of the Balkan chain which separates Thrace from The aly. According to Ta ogy, Hemus, son of Boreas and Orithyia, having aspired to divine honors, was changed into this mountain.