Definition of Hemophiliac

1. Noun. Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding.

Exact synonyms: Bleeder, Haemophile, Haemophiliac, Hemophile
Generic synonyms: Diseased Person, Sick Person, Sufferer
Derivative terms: Bleed, Haemophilic, Hemophilic

Definition of Hemophiliac

1. Noun. (medicine) Somebody that is sexually attracted to blood; one who is afflicted with hemophilia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hemophiliac

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemophiliac

hemonectin
hemopathology
hemopathy
hemoperfusion
hemoperfusions
hemopericardium
hemopexin
hemophagocyte
hemophagocytic
hemophagocytosis
hemophile
hemophiles
hemophilia
hemophilia A
hemophilia B
hemophiliacs
hemophilias
hemophilic
hemophilics
hemophobia
hemophobias
hemopoieses
hemopoiesis
hemopoietic
hemoprotein
hemoproteins
hemoptyses
hemoptysis
hemorheology

Literary usage of Hemophiliac

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

1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
""There are no environmental restraints or restrictions on the hemophiliac's ability to work. An important function of the rehabilitation counselor is the ..."

2. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1905)
"The third stage is that of deformity, which, in varying degree, I believe to be the inevitable result of protracted hemophiliac arthritis — ic, ..."

3. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"... which continued oozing, not to a grea' extent, but it could be controlled, showing that the baby is .' hemophiliac also." DR. HAROLD BAILEY. ..."

4. Surgery of the Blood Vessels by John Shelton Horsley (1915)
"In the study of the blood of the hemophiliac, nothing definite has been found. ... In most instances, the bleeding of a hemophiliac comes from some slight ..."

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