Hemorrhage - Answers an abnormal discharge of blood either externally or internally (bleeding)
Per diapedises - Answers (type of hemorrhage) vascular wall intact, blood leaks through the intact wall,
usually only white blood cells
Per rhexis - Answers (type of hemorrhage) vascular wall is damaged, blood leaks through the tear
Trauma - Answers one cause of hemorrhage
Vascular disease - Answers a second cause of hemorrhage
Hypertension - Answers a third of hemorrhage
Blood disease - Answers final cause of hemorrhage
Petechia - Answers a pinpoint hemorrhage just between the skin surface or on the mucous membrane
Ecchymois - Answers large, irregularly shaped subdermal skin hemorrhage (bruise)
Hematoma - Answers a mass of blood, or a large blood clot caused by a break in the blood vessel
Epistaxis - Answers nose bleed
Hemoptysis - Answers coughing or spitting up blood - associated with a lung disease
Hematemesis - Answers vomiting blood - associated with alcoholism, bulimia, tumors
Melena - Answers blood in the stool
Hematuria - Answers blood in the urine
Hemothorax - Answers blood in the pleural cavity
Hemopercardium - Answers blood in the pericardial sac
Black melena - Answers bleeding from esophagus, stomach, or proximal small intestine
Maroon melena - Answers bleeding from middle portion of intestinal tract
Bright red melena - Answers bleeding originates in colon