HEMOPHILIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hemophilia mean? 

• HEMOPHILIA (noun)
  The noun HEMOPHILIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HEMOPHILIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMOPHILIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bleeder's disease; haemophilia; hemophilia

Hypernyms ("hemophilia" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

sex-linked disorder (any disease or abnormality that is determined by the sex hormones)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hemophilia"):

classical haemophilia; classical hemophilia; haemophilia A; hemophilia A (hemophilia caused by a congenital deficiency of factor VIII; occurs almost exclusively in men)

Christmas disease; haemophilia B; hemophilia B (a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX)

angiohemophilia; vascular hemophilia; von Willebrand's disease (a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding)

 Context examples 

Bleeding in the brain, a very serious complication of hemophilia, requires emergency treatment.

(Hemophilia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Inherited as an x-linked recessive disease, hemophilia A is the most common hemophilia, occurring in approximately 1 in 10,000 male births.

(Hemophilia A, NCI Thesaurus)

These variants result in hemophilia A, a common recessive X-linked coagulation disorder.

(F8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatment is similar to that for hemophilia A.

(Hemophilia B, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder.

(Bleeding Disorders, NIH)

Approximately 10 % of patients with acquired hemophilia have an underlying malignancy.

(Hemophilia, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a recessive X-linked disorder, also called hemophilia B or Christmas disease.

(F9 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Hemophilia B is caused by mutations in the gene for coagulation factor IX, a protein that helps blood to clot.

(Gene Therapy Used to Treat Hemophilia, NIH)

The absence or mutation of these factors can lead to hemophilia and blood clotting disorders.

(Coagulation Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

A division of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that supports research on the causes, prevention, and treatment of nonmalignant blood diseases, including anemias, sickle cell disease, and thalassemia; premalignant processes such as myelodysplasia and myeloproliferative disorders; hemophilia and other abnormalities of hemostasis and thrombosis; and immune dysfunction.

(Division of Blood Diseases and Resources, NCI Thesaurus)