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Hemophilia

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Noun

1. bleeder's disease, haemophilia, hemophilia

congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hemophilia

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noun
any of several hereditary disorders, nearly always of males, in which one of the normal blood-clotting factors is deficient, causing serious internal or external hemorrhage from minor cuts and injuries: females with this defective gene are, normally, only carriers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hemophilia

see synonyms of hemophilia
n.
Any of several sex-linked genetic disorders, manifested almost exclusively in males, in which the blood fails to clot normally because of a deficiency or an abnormality of one of the clotting factors.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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