bleeding
n. uncountablen. the process of losing blood from your body because of a cut or injury. Doctors also use this word to describe how they stop blood from flowing during an operation.
n. the escape of blood from the circulatory system through ruptured blood vessels. In a clinical context, it refers to both spontaneous hemorrhaging and controlled blood loss during surgical procedures.
The doctor applied pressure to stop the bleeding.
Internal bleeding can be difficult to detect without a proper medical scan or physical examination.
The surgeon noted that the patient's bleeding was surprisingly minimal despite the complexity of the vascular repair performed during the three-hour operation.
By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
Usually uncountable when referring to the biological process; occasionally used with 'a' in medical jargon to refer to a specific event ('a gastrointestinal bleeding').