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Webster 1913 Edition
Bleeder
Bleed′er
,Noun.
(Med.)
(a)
One who, or that which, draws blood.
(b)
One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
Definition 2024
bleeder
bleeder
English
Noun
bleeder (plural bleeders)
- A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
- (surgery) A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
- 2013, Theresa Welch Fossum, Small Animal Surgery Textbook
- Ligate or cauterize small subcutaneous bleeders and identify the linea alba.
- 2013, Theresa Welch Fossum, Small Animal Surgery Textbook
- Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
- A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
- (Britain, slang, derogatory) A troublesome fellow; a blighter.