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    HAEMOPHILIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to sonplay

    Synonyms:

    bleeder's disease; haemophilia; hemophilia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("haemophilia" 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 "haemophilia"):

    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)

    Derivation:

    haemophilic (relating to or having hemophilia)

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