"epistaxis" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɛpɪˈstæksɪs/ Forms: epistaxes [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις (epístaxis, “nosebleed”): ἐπί (epí, “above, over, on, upon, besides”) + στάζω (stázō, “to drip (from the nostrils)”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|ἐπίσταξις||nosebleed}} Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις (epístaxis, “nosebleed”), {{m|grc|ἐπί||above, over, on, upon, besides}} ἐπί (epí, “above, over, on, upon, besides”), {{m|grc|στάζω||to drip (from the nostrils)}} στάζω (stázō, “to drip (from the nostrils)”) Head templates: {{en-noun|epistaxes}} epistaxis (plural epistaxes)
  1. (medicine) nosebleed Categories (topical): Medical signs and symptoms Hyponyms: rhinorrhagia Coordinate_terms: pseudoepistaxis Translations (nosebleed): رعاف (Arabic), epistaxi [feminine] (Catalan), 鼻出血 (Taiwan:bí chū xiě) (english: medical) (Chinese Mandarin), 流鼻血 (Taiwan:liú bí xiě) [informal] (Chinese Mandarin), ނޭފަތުން ލޭއައުން (nēfatun̊ lēaun̊) (Dhivehi), epistaxis [feminine] (Dutch), nenäverenvuoto (Finnish), epistaksis (Finnish), épistaxis [feminine] (French), saignement de nez [informal, masculine] (French), Epistaxis [feminine] (German), Nasenbluten [neuter] (German), επίσταξη (epístaxi) [feminine] (Greek), epistassi [feminine] (Italian), 코피 (kopi) (Korean), epistaxe [feminine] (Portuguese), ipistassi [feminine] (Sicilian), epistaxis [feminine] (Spanish), balinguyngoy (Tagalog), chảy máu cam (Vietnamese), epistasis [masculine] (Welsh), gwaedu trwyn (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-epistaxis-en-noun-7Yyc~nXI Categories (other): Dhivehi terms with redundant script codes, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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