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BLEEDER'S DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
Synonyms:
bleeder's disease; haemophilia; hemophilia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bleeder's disease" is a kind of...):
blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)
sex-linked disorder (any disease or abnormality that is determined by the sex hormones)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bleeder's disease"):
classical haemophilia; classical hemophilia; haemophilia A; hemophilia A (hemophilia caused by a congenital deficiency of factor VIII; occurs almost exclusively in men)
Christmas disease; haemophilia B; hemophilia B (a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX)
angiohemophilia; vascular hemophilia; von Willebrand's disease (a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding)
