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haemolysin |
haemolysis |
haemolytic |
haemolytic anaemia |
haemophile |
haemophilia
| haemophilia a
| haemophilia b
| haemophiliac
| haemophilic
| haemopis
haemophilia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun haemophilia has 1 sense
- haemophilia(n = noun.state) bleeder's disease, hemophilia - congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son; Array has particulars: classical haemophilia, classical hemophilia, haemophilia a, hemophilia a, christmas disease, haemophilia b, hemophilia b, angiohemophilia, vascular hemophilia, von willebrand's disease
is a kind of blood disease, blood disorder, sex-linked disorder
Derived form adjective haemophilic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
haemophilia, n. (US hemophilia) Med. a usu. hereditary disorder with a tendency to bleed severely from even a slight injury, through the failure of the blood to clot normally.
Derivative
haemophilic adj.
Etymology
mod.L (as HAEMO-, -PHILIA)
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