hematoma

English

Alternative forms

• haematoma, hæmatoma

Etymology

From hemato- +‎ -oma. Among the many words derived from -oma that are in current common use, this word is one of only a few that do not denote a neoplasm; another is granuloma.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhiməˈtoʊmə/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

hematoma (plural hematomas or hematomata)

1. (pathology) A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.
   • 1936 June, F Ronchese, “Dermatorrhexis with dermatochalasis and arthrochalasis (the so-called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)”, in American Journal of Diseases of Children, volume 51, number 6, page 1403:

     The so-called Danlos or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome consists of three symptoms: (1) pronounced fragility of the skin and its blood vessels, with breaking, splitting and the formation of hematomas and pseudotumors subsequent to the slightest trauma (dermatorrhexis-fragilitas cutis), (2) a more or less pronounced hyperlaxity and hyperelasticity of the skin (dermatochalasis-laxitas cutis) and (3) more or less pronounced hyperlaxity or hyperflexibility of the joints (arthrochalasis-laxitas articularis).

   • 2012, E. Zeitler, Radiology of Peripheral Vascular Diseases, page 191:

     In 30 years as an expert witness, I have seen total plexus paralysis in three patients after needle angiography with intraaxillary hematoma not followed by surgical repair.

Hyponyms

• bruise (contusion)
• ecchymosis

Derived terms

• subungual hematoma
• subdural hematoma

Related terms

• hemorrhage

Translations

swelling of blood from broken vessel

• Catalan: hematoma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血腫 / 血肿 (zh) (xuèzhǒng), 淤血 (zh) (yūxuè)

• Czech: hematom (cs) m
• Dutch: hematoom (nl) n, bloeduitstorting (nl) f
• Esperanto: hematomo
• Finnish: verenpurkauma (fi)
• French: hématome (fr) m
• Galician: hematoma f, negrón m
• German: Hämatom (de) n
• Greek: αιμάτωμα (el) n (aimátoma)
• Hindi: रुधिरसमूह (rudhirasmūh)
• Hungarian: véraláfutás (hu), vérömleny (hu), hematóma
• Italian: ematoma (it) m
• Japanese: 血腫 (ja) (けっしゅ, kesshu)
• Korean: 혈종 (ko) (hyeoljong)
• Latin: livor
• Maori: uruhua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blåmerke (no) n, hematom n

• Polish: krwiak (pl) m
• Portuguese: hematoma (pt) m
• Romanian: hematom (ro) n
• Russian: гемато́ма (ru) f (gematóma)
• Spanish: hematoma (es)
• Swedish: blåmärke (sv) n, hematom (sv) n

Further reading

• hematoma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From hemato- +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.maˈtõ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.maˈtõ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.maˈto.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.mɐˈto.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -omɐ
• Hyphenation: he‧ma‧to‧ma

Noun

hematoma m (plural hematomas)

1. (medicine) bruise (purple mark on the skin resulting from a blow)

   Synonym: (informal) roxo

Further reading

• “hematoma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From hemato- +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emaˈtoma/ [e.maˈt̪o.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: he‧ma‧to‧ma

Noun

hematoma m (plural hematomas)

1. (medicine) bruise

   Synonyms: cardenal, moratón, moretón

Further reading

• “hematoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10