hemophilia

1. 1.

   congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son

   Synonymshaemophiliableeder's disease

   Broaderblood diseasesex-linked disorder

   Narrowerhemophilia Ahemophilia Bvon Willebrand's disease

Other forms of hemophilia

plural

hemophilias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hemophilia

What does hemophilia mean?

hemophilia means "congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son".

How many syllables are in hemophilia?

hemophilia has 5 syllables: he-mo-phi-li-a. The stress falls on "phi". In IPA it is /ˌhiməˈfiliə/.

What is another word for hemophilia?

Close synonyms include haemophilia, bleeder's disease. 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 hemophilia a common word?

hemophilia 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.