hemophilia

hemophilia
    n 1: congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually
         affects males and is transmitted from mother to son [syn:
         {hemophilia}, {haemophilia}, {bleeder's disease}]
    

Hemophilia \Hem`o*phil"i*a\ (h[=e]`m[.a]*f[i^]l"[i^]*[.a] or
   h[e^]m`[.a]*f[i^]l"[i^]*[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, blood
   + filei^n to love.] (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}.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]
    

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "hemophilia":
      Christmas disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease,
      Hartnup disease, Letterer-Siwe syndrome, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease,
      achromatic vision, acute leukemia, albinism, anemia,
      angiohemophilia, aplastic anemia, chronic leukemia,
      color blindness, cyclic neutropenia, cystic fibrosis,
      dichromatic vision, dysautonomia, erythrocytosis, hemoglobinopathy,
      hemophilia A, hemophilia B, hypochromic anemia, ichthyosis,
      infectious granuloma, iron deficiency anemia, leukemia,
      leukemic reticuloendotheliosis, macrocytic anemia, mongolianism,
      mongolism, mucoviscidosis, multiple myeloma, muscular dystrophy,
      myelogenous leukemia, neutropenia, pancreatic fibrosis,
      pernicious anemia, plasma cell leukemia, plasmacytoma,
      polycythemia, pseudoleukemia, purpura, purpura hemorrhagica,
      sickle-cell anemia, thalassemia, vascular hemophilia