epistaxis

Meaning of epistaxis

noun

bleeding from the nose.

late 18th century: modern Latin, from Greek, from epistazein ‘bleed from the nose’, from epi ‘upon, in addition’ + stazein ‘to drip’.

Information about epistaxis

Hyphenation of epistaxis

epis-taxis

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • epistaxis is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

epistaxis synonyms

Meaning nosebleed:

nosebleed

Translation of epistaxis

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