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Definition of Hemophilia

1. Noun. Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son.

Definition of Hemophilia

1. n. See Hematophilia.

Definition of Hemophilia

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of haemophilia) ¹

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Definition of Hemophilia

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Medical Definition of Hemophilia

1. A haemorrhagic diathesis occurring in two main forms: 1. Haemophilia A (classic haemophilia, factor VIII deficiency), an X linked disorder due to deficiency of coagulation factor VIII. 2. Haemophilia B (factor IX deficiency, Christmas disease), also X linked, due to deficiency of coagulation factor IX. Both forms are determined by a mutant gene near the telomere of the long arm of the X chromosome (Xq), but a different loci and are characterised by subcutaneous and intramuscular haemorrhages, bleeding from the mouth, gums, lips and tongue, haematuria and haemarthroses. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Hemophilia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"The diagnosis of hemophilia must rest to a large extent upon a knowledge of the family history. Where there is no known "bleeder" in the pedigree, ..."

2. Surgical Diseases of Children: A Modern Treatise on Pediatric Surgery by Samuel Walter Kelley (1909)
"hemophilia hemophilia is an hereditary disease in which there is a tendency to ... hemophilia may sometimes be traced through seven or eight genera- ations, ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"There are enormous variations in the symptomatology of hemophilia. ... If the hemophilia lives beyond puberty the chances are that his life will not be ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The Treatment of Hemorrhages in hemophilia, Purpura, and Allied Conditions.—WEIL (Paris letter, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1907, clvii, ..."

5. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"Tk., 1900. 449. 7. hemophilia. Haemophilia. hemophilia ... but according to Zschokke an affection identical with hemophilia has not yet been demonstrated in ..."

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