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Usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
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haemophilia
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Wikipedia
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Haemophilia also spelled hemophilia , is a mostly inherited , genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to form blood clots , a process needed to stop bleeding when a blood vessel is broken. There are two main types, haemophilia A and haemophilia ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context British spelling pathology English) Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Experience with the treatment of haemophilia in this country has shown this approach can be highly effective. ▪ The promised cures to such illnesses as cystic fibrosis and haemophilia are still some time away.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son [syn: hemophilia , bleeder's disease ]
Usage examples of haemophilia.
It should be emphasized that the haemophilia gene may be carried recessively in the male as a part of his genetic make-up.
But if he marries a woman with the same outlaw gene, the result will be haemophilia if the offspring is male.
Investigations are now being conducted into the life of Margaret Brigham's grandmother, Sadie Cochran - for, if the dominant/recessive pattern obtains with TK as it does with haemophilia, Mrs Cochran must have been TK-dominant.
The defeat of the baby-farming lobby removes a long-time stigma from the fair brow of the Junior-but-One State - a congenital stigma, one may say, since the J-but-O State's accession to hoodness coincided almost to the day with the first eugenic legislation concerned with haemophilia, phenylketonuria and congenital imbecility .
It's not illegal anyhow - we have clean genotypes, no diabetes, no haemophilia, nothing!
Nowadays, doctors can treat conditions like haemophilia with clotting factors like thrombin and protein C, and conditions of the opposite kind with warfarin and hirudin, but Sheena's condition wasn't amenable to any kind of continuous therapy.
Heyer did not have haemophilia, but looked as though he should have it He was a withered aristocrat, with a long, thin neck, pate, bulging eyes and a manner of frightened sweetness toward everyone.
I know how you look down on our small size, our allergies and haemophilia and all the other weaknesses that have been bred back and preserved by the race.