Definition of Haemophilia a

1. Noun. Hemophilia caused by a congenital deficiency of factor VIII; occurs almost exclusively in men.


Medical Definition of Haemophilia a

1. A sex-linked genetic disease affecting males that results from a deficiency of clotting factor VIII, a protein factor that is required for normal blood coagulation. Symptoms include easy bruising, bleeding gums, nosebleeds and bleeding into muscle tissue (haematoma) or a joint space (haemarthrosis). Treatment includes the infusion of factor VIII concentrate intravenously to restore this essential factor and normalize blood coagulation. Inheritance: sex-linked. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haemophilia A

haemonies
haemony
haemoparasite
haemopathology
haemopathy
haemoperfusion
haemopericardium
haemoperitoneum
haemopexin
haemophagia
haemophagocyte
haemophagocytosis
haemophil
haemophile
haemophilia
haemophilia C
haemophiliacs
haemophilic
haemophilic arthritis
haemophilic bacteria
haemophilic joint
haemophilioid
haemophilosis
haemophilus
haemophilus infections
haemophilus influenzae type b

Literary usage of Haemophilia a

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

1. Metabolism and Practical Medicine by Karl Harko von Noorden, Carl von Noorden, Isaac Walker Hall (1907)
"The greater part of the literature of the subject may be obtained from the references contained in the subjoined list of papers on haemophilia. A. ..."

2. A Treatise on gout by Dyce Duckworth (1889)
"If regard be had to some of the leading features of gout and of haemophilia, a conviction arises that there is an alliance or a degree of relationship ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"... «ase of joint disease in haemophilia. A thin, cadaverous- looking man, aged thirty years, was admitted to hospital complaining of ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1889)
"For not only are women more liable to the less severe or spontaneous variety of haemophilia, a disease which is almost invariably congenital and heriditary, ..."

5. Urinary and Renal Derangements and Calculous Disorders: Hints on Diagnosis by Lionel Smith Beale (1885)
"... condition of system in which there is a tendency to capillary hemorrhage in all parts of the body, a condition which is now known as Haemophilia (a? ..."

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