hemorrhagic

[Gr. a"imorragiko`s: cf. F. hémorrhagique.]
Pertaining or tending to a flux of blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage.

Pertaining to or characterized by hemorrhage.

• h. bowel disease of swine — see proliferative hemorrhagic enteropathy.
• canine h. fever — see canine ehrlichiosis.
• h. diathesis — a tendency to bleed due to any one or a combination of clotting defects. Occurs, for example, in diseases of liver in which there may be defects in the prothrombin complex, or in fibrinogen or thromboplastin availability. See hemophilia, purpura hemorrhagica, disseminated intravascular coagulation.
• h. disease — an undifferentiated disease manifested by unprovoked hemorrhage and caused by any one of a number of factors. See also hemophilia, epizootic hemorrhagic disease of deer, warfarin, canine ehrlichiosis, hemorrhagic syndrome (below).
• h. disease of the newborn — see neonatal hemorrhagic disease (below).
• h. enteritis — an acute, highly fatal disease of turkeys over 4 weeks of age characterized by bloody droppings, a short course and a high prevalence and caused by an adenovirus.
• h. enterotoxemia — profound toxemia accompanied by hemorrhagic enteritis. It is caused by Clostridium perfringens types A, B, C and E.
• h. foal enteritis — see antibiotic-associated colitis.
• neonatal h. disease — hemorrhagic disease of the newborn; may be due to maternal isoimmunization, e.g. in pigs. See also umbilical hemorrhage.
• h. septicemia — a septicemic pasteurellosis of cattle and other ruminants, rarely of pigs and horses. It is caused by Pasteurella multocida type 1 (or B) rarely D or E, and characterized by a sudden onset of high fever, dyspnea, salivation, hot painful subcutaneous swellings and submucosal petechiae and death in about 24 hours. Called also septicemic pasteurellosis, el guedda.
— Occurs also in finfish, caused by opportunist bacteria including Aeromonas, Pseudomonas spp.
• h. shock — see shock.
• h. syndrome — a widespread disease of domestic fowl causing significant losses due to death in birds about 5 to 9 weeks of age. The cause may be multifactorial but viruses are suspected to play an important role. Characterized by clinical anemia, leukopenia, anemia and hemorrhages in all tissues.