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Hemophilia   Listen
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Hemophilia  n.  (Med.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds; it is caused by an absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood, and is a recessive genetic disease linked to the X-chromosome, and therefore usually occurs only in males; there are several specific forms. It may be treated by administering purified clotting factor. It was formerly termed Hematophilia.






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Words linked to "Hemophilia" :   sex-linked disorder, haemophilia B, angiohemophilia, blood disorder, classical hemophilia, blood disease, hemophilia B, von Willebrand's disease, haemophilia, hemophilia A, bleeder's disease, Christmas disease



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