Hemorrhagic Tendency
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
This article defines hemorrhagic tendency as a predisposition to bleeding, whether spontaneous or following injury. It notes that bleeding most commonly occurs in the skin and mucous membranes of internal organs, often in multiple sites, and is sometimes a symptom of underlying diseases like infections, anemia, and leukemia.
Encyclopedia entry (1928–1936)
HEMORRHAGIC TENDENCY, a predisposition to bleeding, whether spontaneous or as a result of injury. The most frequent sites for such hemorrhages, often multiple, are the skin and the mucous membranes of internal organs; the organs themselves bleed much more rarely. In a number of cases, the predisposition to bleeding is merely a symptom, not necessarily characteristic of a given disease, as for example in certain infectious diseases, anemias, and leukemias, especially in the acute forms of the latter, in severe hepatic lesions, and in certain poisonings. On the other hand, there exists a number of independent clinical symptom complexes, partly known, partly not fully elucidated in their etiology, in which H. plays the role of an extremely characteristic sign (see Hemorrhagic diathesis).
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“Hemorrhagic Tendency.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/hemorrhagic-tendency/