Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having reference to an abnormal tendency toward hemorrhage.
- noun One who is subject to hemophilia.
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- noun someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding
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Examples
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Serious hemorrhage could occur only in a hemophile.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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As a rule the mother of a hemophile is not a ` ` bleeder '' herself, but is the daughter of one.
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The daughters of a hemophile, though healthy and free from any tendency themselves, are almost certain to transmit the disposition to the male offspring.
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A minor operation on a hemophile may end in death; so slight an operation as drawing a tooth has been followed by the most disastrous consequences.
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A minor operation on a hemophile may end in death; so slight an operation as drawing a tooth has been followed by the most disastrous consequences.
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The daughters of a hemophile, though healthy and free from any tendency themselves, are almost certain to transmit the disposition to the male offspring.
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As a rule the mother of a hemophile is not a "bleeder" herself, but is the daughter of one.
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We now our own eyetooth hemophile vote to great coastguard clamoring to electrocution the log or proturan complexifier on the lagidium.
Rational Review 2009
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