bleeding - flow of blood from a ruptured blood vesselsharm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. blood extravasation - the leakage of blood from a vessel into tissues surrounding it; can occur in injuries or burns or allergic reactions hyphema - bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye metrorrhagia - bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer) |