English noun: hemophilia | |||
1. | hemophilia (state) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son | ||
Synonyms | bleeder's disease, haemophilia | ||
Broader (hypernym) | blood disease, blood disorder, sex-linked disorder | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | angiohemophilia, Christmas disease, classical haemophilia, classical hemophilia, haemophilia A, haemophilia B, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease | ||