bleeder's disease

Questions about bleeder's disease

What does bleeder's disease mean?

bleeder's disease means "congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son".

What is another word for bleeder's disease?

Close synonyms include hemophilia, haemophilia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleeder's disease a common word?

bleeder's disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.