haemophilia

See also: hæmophilia

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

haemo- +‎ -philia, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (blood) + φιλία (friendship)

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪliə

Noun

haemophilia (countable and uncountable, plural haemophilias)

(British spelling, pathology) Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son.

Synonyms

bleeder's disease
Christmas disease

Derived terms

Translations

any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: հեմոֆիլիա (hy) (hemofilia)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 血友病 (zh) (xuèyǒubìng)
Danish: blødersyge
Dutch: hemofilie (nl) f, bloederziekte (nl) f
Estonian: veritsustõbi
Finnish: hemofilia (fi), verenvuototauti (fi)
French: hémophilie (fr) f
German: Hämophilie (de) f, Bluterkrankheit f
Greek: αιμοφιλία (el) f (aimofilía)
Gujarati: રક્તસ્રાવિતા (raktasrāvitā)
Hindi: अधिरक्तस्त्राव (adhiraktastrāv)
Hungarian: vérzékenység (hu), hemofília (hu)

Italian: emofilia (it)
Japanese: 血友病 (ketsuyuubyou, けつゆうびょう)
Korean: 혈우병 (ko) (hyeorubyeong, 血友病)
Maori: mate toto tepekore
Norwegian: blødersykdom
Polish: hemofilia (pl) f
Portuguese: hemofilia (pt) f
Russian: гемофили́я (ru) f (gemofilíja)
Severn Ojibwa: ᓀᐦᐱᒋᔅᑴᓭ ᐁᑳ ᑾᔭᒃ ᐁᐗᑐᐦᓭᒃ (nehpichiskwese ekaa kwayak ewatohsek)
Slovene: krvavíčnost
Spanish: hemofilia (es) f
Thai: เลือดไหลไม่หยุด
Turkish: hemofili (tr)

See also

haemorrhagic diathesis

Anagrams

hemophilia A

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