| NOUN | state | haemophilia, hemophilia, bleeder's disease | congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding |
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| Meaning | congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son. | |
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| Synonyms | hemophilia, bleeder's disease | |
| Narrower | hemophilia A, haemophilia A, classical hemophilia, classical haemophilia | hemophilia caused by a congenital deficiency / deficiency of factor VIII |
| hemophilia B, haemophilia B, Christmas disease | A clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency / deficiency of factor IX | |
| von Willebrand's disease, angiohemophilia, vascular hemophilia | A form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand | |
| Broader | 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 | |
| Spanish | hematología, hemofilia | |
| Catalan | hemofília | |
| Adjectives | haemophilic | relating to or having hemophilia |
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