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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or affected by hemophilia.
  • adjective Growing well in blood or in a culture containing blood. Used of certain bacteria.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a tendency to spontaneous bleeding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophiliac.
  • adjective (Microbiology) Growing best in a medium containing blood, or in blood; -- of bacteria.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to hemophilia
  • adjective Describing some bacteria that grow well in blood

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to or having hemophilia

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Examples

  • There is another type of meningitis that is called hemophilic influenza

    Castro Speaks at Havana Hospital Annex Opening 1992

  • They think that they are going to achieve, as part of ... [pauses] at a certain point in the production process of the vaccine, they will achieve a certain capability to produce medicines against this illness, the hemophilic meningitis bacteria, medicines to fight it even before they have obtained a vaccine.

    Castro Speaks at Havana Hospital Annex Opening 1992

  • Carlos J. Finlay Institute is working on a vaccine against hemophilic influenzae meningitis.

    Castro Speaks at Havana Hospital Annex Opening 1992

  • D.VI., D. J.: Food accessory factors in bacterial culture with special reference to hemophilic bacilli I. J.

    The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy

  • The lesson is, that boys who are bleeders may marry, because they will most likely _not_ transmit the disease; but girls who come from a hemophilic family, irrespective of whether they themselves are hemophilics or not, must not marry, because most likely they _will_ transmit the disease.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • Mackenzie 15.196 reports an instance of hemophilic purpura of the retina, followed by death.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Kolster 15.189 has investigated hemophilia in women, and reports a case of bleeding in the daughter of a hemophilic woman.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Erichsen 15.195 cites an instance of extravasation of blood into the calf of the leg of an individual of hemophilic tendencies.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • He also analyzes 50 genealogic trees of hemophilic families, and remarks that Nasse's law of transmission does not hold true.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • There is no evidence that the woman was of hemophilic descent.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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