Definitions

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  • noun A person with haemophilia.

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  • noun someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding

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Examples

  • When the old Blood Service "quango" in Stevenage was scrapped by the last bunch of Tories it introduced Aids to an unsuspecting haemophiliac population.

    MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011

  • If you knew, however, that he had taken an anti-coagulant or was a haemophiliac, then you would know that wounding him was a sufficient condition for his bleeding to death, and you would be responsible for it.

    Dawkins Laban 2006

  • A semi haemophiliac, nobody knew the real truth what happened and it was frustrating enough trying to translate any information that was given to us.

    the board of truth- short story Linda 2007

  • A semi haemophiliac, nobody knew the real truth what happened and it was frustrating enough trying to translate any information that was given to us.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Linda 2007

  • - 1990: Death of Ryan White, a young American HIV-infeced haemophiliac whose barring from school, because of HIV infection, unleashed a campaign against AIDS prejudice.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • - 1990: Death of Ryan White, a young American HIV-infected haemophiliac whose barring from school because of HIV infection unleashed a campaign against AIDS prejudice.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • - 1990: Death of Ryan White, a young American HIV-infected haemophiliac whose barring from school because of HIV infection, unleashed a campaign against AIDS prejudice.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • Greyling, a haemophiliac who tested HIV positive 10 years ago, and his wife Liesl, were the project leaders.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Thompsons Solicitors was appointed to represent all transfusion and haemophiliac victims at The Penrose inquiry, set up by the Scottish government two years ago.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • France since the so-called "tainted blood" case in which haemophiliac transfusion patients received

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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