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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hemophiliac
noun
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▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hemophiliac

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
hemophiliac

1896 (adj.); 1897 (n.)., from hemophilia. Perhaps modeled on French hémophilique (1880).

Wiktionary
hemophiliac

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

WordNet
hemophiliac

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

Wikipedia
Hemophiliac (band)

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.

Hemophiliac (album)

Hemophiliac is a limited edition album of improvised experimental music by John Zorn, Ikue Mori and Mike Patton. The album was released as a limited edition 2-CD set of 2,500 copies, personally autographed by Zorn, Patton and Mori, on Zorn's Tzadik label.

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.