Definition of Haemophiliac

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

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

Definition of Haemophiliac

1. Noun. A person with haemophilia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Haemophiliac

1. A patient afflicted with a sex-linked genetic disease affecting males that results from a deficiency of a specific protein factor that is required for normal blood coagulation. See: haemophilia A and haemophilia B. (27 Sep 1997) Haemophilia due to deficiency of factor XI; clinically resembles haemophilia A and B but has different inheritance. Inheritance: autosomal dominant. (20 Sep 2002)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haemophiliac

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
haemophilus influenzae type b immunization
haemophilus vaccines
haemophobia

Literary usage of Haemophiliac

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

1. The Newer Physiology in Surgical and General Practice by Arthur J. Rendle Short (1916)
"haemophiliac fibrinogen is as readily clotted by normal or by haemophiliac ... But haemophiliac blood must stand a long time before prothrombin is converted ..."

2. Birmingham Medical Review (1896)
"He further points out that the blood of haemophiliac patients and of their female ascendants is characterised by a notable paucity of white blood corpuscles ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Block and Goldberg report a case of mesenteric embolism in a haemophiliac which almost cost the patient her life ..."

4. The Impact of HIV-AIDS on World Population by Peter O. Way (1994)
"Adult AIDS Cases for Europe and the United States, by Mode of Transmission: 1992 Europe haemophiliac 2% Heterosexual 10% Transfusion 3% Other 5% ..."

5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1906)
"When some blood is withdrawn from a haemophiliac and observed in vitro it is ... HP has also added normal serum to haemophiliac blood uud has found that ..."

6. Blood Transfusion, Hemorrhage and the Anaemias by Bertrand Moses Bernheim (1917)
"According to Hess, " the plasma of the haemophiliac has a delayed clotting time, ... Cellular examination of haemophiliac blood reveals nothing unusual, ..."

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