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  2. Niddah - Wikipedia

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    In the days of the Amoraim, because of possible confusion in determining when menstruation began and ended and hence whether blood was normal menstrual (niddah) or abnormal (zavah) blood, it became the accepted practice and practical halacha, that all women treat any emission as a continued abnormal flow (zavah gedolah—זבה גדולה ...

  3. Hematocolpos - Wikipedia

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    Hematocolpos is a medical condition in which the vagina is pooled with menstrual blood due to multiple factors leading to the blockage of menstrual blood flow. The medical definition of hematocolpos is "an accumulation of blood within the vagina". It is often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.

  4. Bloodless surgery - Wikipedia

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    During the early 1960s, American heart surgeon Denton Cooley successfully performed numerous bloodless open-heart surgeries on Jehovah's Witness patients. Fifteen years later, he and his associate published a report of more than 500 cardiac surgeries in this population, documenting that cardiac surgery could be safely performed without blood transfusion.

  5. Sue Wathen, Joan Edgington and Nicola Leahey were all infected with hepatitis C from contaminated blood products. ‘Magical relief’ to find we were not alone, say women who met via blood ...

  6. Menstruation hut - Wikipedia

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    The women often share a hut so there are usually several people in one hut at a time. Men are never welcome, but younger boys below the age of puberty are allowed, and they cannot even look in the windows. [12] The women must stay outside the village during menstruation, but they are free to wander the forest and surrounding areas.

  7. Intravenous iron infusion - Wikipedia

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    Recent studies of iron and its associated with red blood cells has increased interest in the use and development of intravenous iron therapy to reduce the requirement for allogenic red blood cell transfusions. [13] [12] These findings show that intravenous iron has a broad use to many patients where anaemia is an underlying issue. [12]

  8. Emergency bleeding control - Wikipedia

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    Arterial bleeding: As the name suggests, blood flow originating in an artery. With this type of bleeding, the blood is typically bright red to yellowish in colour, due to the high degree of oxygenation. Blood typically exits the wound in spurts, rather than in a steady flow; the blood spurts out in time with the heartbeat. The amount of blood ...

  9. Antihemorrhagic - Wikipedia

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    It attracts platelets and allows for the formation of a blood clot when it comes into contact with blood. Unlike the hemostatic clamp, no mechanical action is involved. The surgeon presses the MCH against a bleeding site, and the collagen attracts and helps with the clotting process to eventually stop bleeding.