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HAEMOPHILIA

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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 ("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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