Crossword clues for hemophilia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854 (in anglicized form hæmophily), from German hämophile, coined 1828 by German physician Johann Lucas Schönlein (1793-1864), from Greek haima "blood" (see -emia) + philia "to love" (see -philia), here with a sense of "tendency to."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of haemophilia English)
WordNet
n. congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son [syn: haemophilia, bleeder's disease]
Usage examples of "hemophilia".
Kolster has investigated hemophilia in women, and reports a case of bleeding in the daughter of a hemophilic woman.
Web, have advanced the theory that the tsarevitch did not have hemophilia.
Constantin Zhukovsky could not have been a fourteen-year-old tsarevitch in 1918, for the simple, well-known reason that, aside from the fact that he was almost certainly assassinated at Ekaterinburg along with the rest of his family, the tsarevitch had hemophilia.
Bioengineering should also allow scientists to attack ancient genetic problems such as large dog hip dysphasia or hemophilia.
No child born of their laboratory would ever have Epstein-Barr, or sickle-cell anemia, familial hypercholesterolemia, Huntington’s disease, hemophilia, or any other of the hereditary nasties.
Alzheimer's, muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, leukemia, anorexia, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, for Christ sakes –.
No more sickle-cell anemia, no more hemophilia or cystic fibrosis, no more jerry-built eyeballs that made you myopic, no more saddle-bag flab or hay fever or dinky cocks or bald heads twinkling in the moonlight to put a damper on ro.