HAEMOPHILIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haemophilia mean? 

• HAEMOPHILIA (noun)
  The noun HAEMOPHILIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HAEMOPHILIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAEMOPHILIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bleeder's disease; haemophilia; hemophilia

Hypernyms ("haemophilia" 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 "haemophilia"):

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)

Derivation:

haemophilic (relating to or having hemophilia)

 Context examples 

An unrelated action of desmopressin acetate is to increases circulating factor VIII and is used in patients with haemophilia and von Willebrand's disease.

(Desmopressin Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)