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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
haemophiliac
noun
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▪ At court, Rasputin's influence grew after his beneficial intervention in the treatment of their haemophiliac son.
▪ Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service?
▪ His brother Roy, who is also a haemophiliac, was accused earlier this year of deliberately infecting women with the virus.
▪ It should be possible to identify every haemophiliac who received clotting factors from the donated plasma.
▪ Risk to haemophiliacs was thereby sharply reduced.
▪ Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8.
▪ There are more than 1,000 haemophiliacs and nearly 100 others who received contaminated blood transfusions.
▪ We made a difficult decision, and provided a generous settlement for haemophiliacs.
Wiktionary
haemophiliac

alt. (label en British spelling) A person with haemophilia. n. (label en British spelling) A person with haemophilia.

WordNet
haemophiliac

n. someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding [syn: hemophiliac, bleeder, hemophile, haemophile]

Usage examples of "haemophiliac".

The snowflakes blinked around them, ester and ester, like the leaking blanks on the oldest archive footage, the runny white bits blobbing the white dress of the Tsarina as she turns on a white balcony under a white parasol to laugh at the haemophiliac child in his white sailor's suit.