Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hemophilia, bleeder's disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blood disease, blood disorder, sex-linked disorder
Narrower terms: hemophilia A, haemophilia A, classical hemophilia, classical haemophilia, hemophilia B, haemophilia B, Christmas disease, von Willebrand's disease, angiohemophilia, vascular hemophilia
From haemo- + -philia, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + φιλία (philía, “friendship”). Originally called haemorrhaphilia, probably from the word haemorrhage.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Arabic:
هِيمُوفِيلِيَا
(hīmūfīliyā)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Arabic:
نَزْف دَم وِرَاثِيّ
(nazf dam wirāṯiyy)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Arabic:
نَاعُور
(nāʕūr)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Arabic:
نزَاف
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Armenian:
հեմոֆիլիա
(hemofilia)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Catalan:
hemofília
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Chinese Mandarin:
血友病
(xuèyǒubìng)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Czech:
hemofilie
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Danish:
blødersyge
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Dutch:
hemofilie
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Dutch:
bloederziekte
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Estonian:
veritsustõbi
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Faroese:
bløðarasjúka
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Finnish:
hemofilia
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Finnish:
verenvuototauti
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
French:
hémophilie
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Galician:
hemofilia
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
German:
Hämophilie
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
German:
Bluterkrankheit
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Greek:
αιμοφιλία
(aimofilía)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Gujarati:
રક્તસ્રાવિતા
(raktasrāvitā)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Hindi:
अधिरक्तस्त्राव
(adhiraktastrāv)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Hungarian:
vérzékenység
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Hungarian:
hemofília
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Italian:
emofilia
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Japanese:
血友病
(ketsuyūbyō)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Korean:
혈우병(血友病))
(hyeorubyeong)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Māori:
mate toto tepekore
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Norwegian:
blødersykdom
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Occitan:
hemofilia
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Severn Ojibwa:
ᓀᐦᐱᒋᔅᑴᓭ ᐁᑳ ᑾᔭᒃ ᐁᐗᑐᐦᓭᒃ
(nehpichiskwese ekaa kwayak ewatohsek)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Polish:
hemofilia
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Portuguese:
hemofilia
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Russian:
гемофили́я
(gemofilíja)
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Slovak:
hemofília
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Slovene:
krvavíčnost
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Spanish:
hemofilia
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Swedish:
klassisk blödarsjuka
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Swedish:
blödarsjuka
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Swedish:
hemofili
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Thai:
เลือดไหลไม่หยุด
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding
-
Turkish:
hemofili
— any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding