'Hemophilia' definitions:
Definition of 'hemophilia'
From: WordNet
noun
Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son [syn: hemophilia, haemophilia, bleeder's disease]
Definition of 'Hemophilia'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'hemophilia'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achromatic vision,
- acute leukemia,
- albinism,
- anemia,
- angiohemophilia,
- aplastic anemia,
- Christmas disease,
- chronic leukemia,
- color blindness,
- cyclic neutropenia,
- cystic fibrosis,
- dichromatic vision,
- dysautonomia,
- erythrocytosis,
- Hand-Schuller-Christian disease,
- Hartnup disease,
- hemoglobinopathy,
- hemophilia A,
- hemophilia B,
- hypochromic anemia,
- ichthyosis,
- infectious granuloma,
- iron deficiency anemia,
- Letterer-Siwe syndrome,
- 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,
- Werdnig-Hoffmann disease