ALL meanings of hemophilia
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H h - noun hemophilia blood-clotting disorder 1
- noun hemophilia A medical condition in which the ability of the blood to clot is severely reduced, causing the sufferer to bleed severely from even a slight injury. The condition is typically caused by a hereditary lack of a coagulation factor, most often factor VIII. 1
- noun hemophilia any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood. 1
- noun hemophilia Alternative spelling of haemophilia. 0
- noun hemophilia any of several hereditary disorders, nearly always of males, in which one of the normal blood-clotting factors is deficient, causing serious internal or external hemorrhage from minor cuts and injuries: females with this defective gene are, normally, only carriers 0