Found 2 items, similar to hemophilia.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hemophilia hemophilia n : congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son [syn: haemophilia, bleeder's disease]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hemophilia 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]