Meaning of HEMOPHILIA

Pronunciation:			`heemu'fileeu
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
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	Synonyms:		bleeder's disease, haemophilia
	See Also:		angiohemophilia, blood disease, blood disorder, Christmas disease, classical haemophilia, classical hemophilia, haemophilia A, haemophilia B, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, sex-linked disorder, vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Hem`o*phil"i*a\, n. See {Hematophilia}.
Medical Dictionary
	Definition:		An inherited bleeding disorder in which blood clotting is abnormal.
Biology Dictionary
	Definition:		An X-linked recessive genetic disease, caused by a mutation in the gene for clotting factor VIII (hemophilia A) or clotting factor IX (hemophilia B), which leads to abnormal blood clotting.
Glossary
	Definition:		An X-linked recessive genetic disease, caused by a mutation in the gene for clotting factor VIII (hemophilia A) or clotting factor IX (hemophilia B), which leads to abnormal blood clotting.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		achromatic vision, acute leukemia, albinism, anemia, angiohemophilia, aplastic anemia, Christmas disease, chronic leukemia, color blindness, cyclic neutropenia, cystic fibrosis, dichromatic vision, dysautonomia, erythrocytosis, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Hartnup disease, hemoglobinopathy, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, hypochromic anemia, ichthyosis, infectious granuloma, iron deficiency anemia, Letterer-Siwe syndrome, 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, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease