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HEMOPHILIA
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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 ("hemophilia" 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 "hemophilia"):
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)
Context examples:
Hemophilia is a rare disorder in which the blood does not clot normally.
(Hemophilia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Hemophilia is a rare bleeding disorder in which blood doesn’t clot normally.
(Gene Therapy Used to Treat Hemophilia, NIH)
In individuals without hereditary hemophilia A, factor VIII inhibitors may occur spontaneously as autoantibodies, resulting in a condition known as 'acquired hemophilia.'
(Hemophilia, NCI Thesaurus)
A deficiency of blood coagulation factor IX inherited as an X-linked disorder. (Also known as Christmas Disease, after the first patient studied in detail, not the holy day.) Historical and clinical features resemble those in classic hemophilia (HEMOPHILIA A), but patients present with fewer symptoms.
(Hemophilia B, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
If you have hemophilia, you have little or no clotting factor.
(Hemophilia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Inherited coagulation factor-deficient hemophilias include hemophilia A or classic hemophilia (factor VIII deficiency) hemophilia B or Christmas disease (factor IX deficiency), and hemophilia C (factor XI deficiency).
(Hemophilia, NCI Thesaurus)
The main symptoms of hemophilia are excessive bleeding and easy bruising.
(Hemophilia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Hemophilia usually occurs in males.
(Hemophilia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
