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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son [syn: hemophilia, haemophilia, bleeder's disease]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1872 a sex-linked hereditary blood defect that occurs almost exclusively in males and is characterized by delayed clotting of the blood and consequent difficulty in controlling hemorrhage even after minor injuries

Britannica Concise

Hereditary bleeding disorder caused by deficiency of a coagulation factor. Lack of factor VIII causes classic hemophilia; other types are caused by deficiency of factor IX or XI. The first two are transmitted by sex-linked heredity; the third has dominant inheritance and occurs in females as well as males. Spontaneous bleeding may occur. Even trivial injury can cause life-threatening blood loss. Drugs can be given to stop bleeding. Heavy blood loss requires blood transfusions.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hemophilia Hem`o*phil"i*a, n. See Hematophilia.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see haemophilia

Moby Thesaurus

Christmas disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Hartnup disease, Letterer-Siwe syndrome, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, achromatic vision, acute leukemia, albinism, anemia, angiohemophilia, aplastic anemia, chronic leukemia, color blindness, cyclic neutropenia, cystic fibrosis, dichromatic vision, dysautonomia, erythrocytosis, hemoglobinopathy, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, hypochromic anemia, ichthyosis, infectious granuloma, iron deficiency anemia, leukemia, leukemic reticuloendotheliosis, macrocytic anemia, mongolianism, mongolism, mucoviscidosis, multiple myeloma, muscular dystrophy, myelogenous leukemia, neutropenia, pancreatic fibrosis, pernicious anemia, plasma cell leukemia, plasmacytoma, polycythemia, pseudoleukemia, purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, sickle-cell anemia, thalassemia, vascular hemophilia