-rrhagia

DEFINITION of -rrhagia

forms nouns: rhag--ia - profuse discharge, hemorrhage

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ETYMOLOGY of -rrhagia

greek

Component	Origin	Meaning
rhag- / -ia	Greek ῥήγνυμι (rhēgnymi), from ῥαγνύω (rhagnyō)	“hemorrhage,” “bursting out,” “profuse discharge of blood” — Noun-forming compound suffix — “condition of violent or profuse bleeding/discharge”

The word entered English in the 1540s as hemorrhage (noun/verb), borrowed from French hémorragie, from Late Latin haemorrhagia, from Greek αἱμόρροια (haimorroia) — literally “a bursting-out of blood” (haima “blood” + rhagia “a bursting”). The suffix form -rrhagia in medical compounds appeared in the 1800s. The root rhēgnymi (“to burst, to break”) connects -rrhagia to the entire rupture and hemorrhage suffixes: menorrhagia (meno- + rrhagia $\to$ profuse menstrual bleeding), melorrhagia (melo- + rrhagia $\to$ profuse discharge of menses), and rhinorrhagia (rhino- + rrhagia $\to$ violent nasal bleeding). The compound suffix -rrhagia is productive in surgery, gynecology, and hematology: e.g., uterine hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, rectorrhagia, splenorrhagia, and urethrorrhagia.

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RELATED TERMS to -rrhagia

-rrhagia	profuse discharge	hemorrhage	-
-rrhea	YES	-	excessive secretion

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DERIVATIONS of -rrhagia

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