9 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
noun bleeding from the nose
originFrom Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις (epístaxis, “nosebleed”): ἐπί (epí, “above, over, on, upon, besides”) + στάζω (stázō, “to drip (from the nostrils)”).
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