Hemophilia

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hemophilia \Hem`o*phil"i*a\ (h[=e]`m[.a]*f[i^]l"[i^]*[.a] or
     h[e^]m`[.a]*f[i^]l"[i^]*[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, blood
     + filei^n to love.] (Med.)
     A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and
     uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds; it is
     caused by an absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in


     the blood, and is a recessive genetic disease linked to the
     X-chromosome, and therefore usually occurs only in males;
     there are several specific forms. It may be treated by
     administering purified clotting factor. It was formerly
     termed {Hematophilia}.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "hemophilia":
     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