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Answer for the clue "Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding ", 11 letters:
hemophiliac

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Word definitions for hemophiliac in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hemophiliac \hem`o*phil"i*ac\ (h[=e]`m[.a]*f[i^]l"[i^]*[a^]k), a. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophilic.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896 (adj.); 1897 (n.)., from hemophilia . Perhaps modeled on French hémophilique (1880).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ About $ 5 billion of plasma products are used each year by hemophiliacs and patients with diseases of the immune system. ▪ She might as well have been asking a hemorrhaging hemophiliac for blood.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hemophiliac is an experimental musical act. This group is billed as improvisational music from the outer reaches of madness. Mike Patton does voice effects along with John Zorn on saxophone and Ikue Mori on laptop electronics.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding [syn: haemophiliac , bleeder , hemophile , haemophile ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) Somebody that is sexually attracted to blood; one who is afflicted with hemophilia.

Usage examples of hemophiliac.

Romanov, the tsarevitch, son of the last Romanov ruler of Russia, fourteen years old, described over and over again as a physically fragile hemophiliac, had been learning to play the balalaika.

So maybe the tsarevitch was a sick hemophiliac with complications that caused fever.

Also rejected as blood donors are hemophiliacs who have received clotting factor concentrates.

I'm a hemophiliac homophobe and a crucifiable Christian abed at the Gay Roman Inn.

My God, armies slaughtered one another across the plains of Europe, popes hurled anathemas, emperors met, hemophiliac and incestuous, in the hunting lodge of the Palatine gardens, all to supply a cover, a sumptuous facade for the work of these wireless operators who in the House of Solomon were listening for pale echoes from the Umbilicus Mundi.