epistaxis

See also: épistaxis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις (epístaxis, “nosebleed”): ἐπί (epí, “above, over, on, upon, besides”) + στάζω (stázō, “to drip (from the nostrils)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛpɪˈstæksɪs/

Noun

epistaxis (plural epistaxes)

1. (medicine) Nosebleed.

Hyponyms

• rhinorrhagia

Coordinate terms

• pseudoepistaxis

Translations

nosebleed

• Arabic: رعاف
• Catalan: epistaxi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼻出血 (zh) (Taiwan:bí chū xiě) (medical), 流鼻血 (zh) (Taiwan:liú bí xiě) (casual)

• Dhivehi: ނޭފަތުން ލޭއައުން (nēfatun̊ lēaun̊)
• Dutch: epistaxis (nl) f
• Finnish: nenäverenvuoto (fi), epistaksis
• French: épistaxis (fr) f, saignement de nez (fr) m (casual)
• German: Epistaxis (de) f, Nasenbluten (de) n
• Greek: επίσταξη (el) f (epístaxi)
• Italian: epistassi (it) f
• Korean: 코피 (ko) (kopi)
• Portuguese: epistaxe (pt) f
• Sicilian: ipistassi f
• Spanish: epistaxis (es) f
• Tagalog: balinguyngoy (tl)
• Vietnamese: chảy máu cam
• Welsh: epistasis m, gwaedu trwyn

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épistaxis.

Noun

epistaxis n (uncountable)

1. epistaxis

Declension

declension of epistaxis (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) epistaxis	epistaxisul
genitive/dative	(unui) epistaxis	epistaxisului
vocative	epistaxisule

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις (epístaxis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /episˈtaɡsis/ [e.pisˈt̪aɣ̞.sis]
• Rhymes: -aɡsis
• Syllabification: e‧pis‧ta‧xis

Noun

epistaxis f (plural epistaxis)

1. (pathology) epistaxis

Further reading

• “epistaxis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16