Definitions
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 inblood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or having hemophilia
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Examples
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There is another type of meningitis that is called hemophilic influenza
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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.
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Carlos J. Finlay Institute is working on a vaccine against hemophilic influenzae meningitis.
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D.VI., D. J.: Food accessory factors in bacterial culture with special reference to hemophilic bacilli I. J.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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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
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Mackenzie 15.196 reports an instance of hemophilic purpura of the retina, followed by death.
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Kolster 15.189 has investigated hemophilia in women, and reports a case of bleeding in the daughter of a hemophilic woman.
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Erichsen 15.195 cites an instance of extravasation of blood into the calf of the leg of an individual of hemophilic tendencies.
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He also analyzes 50 genealogic trees of hemophilic families, and remarks that Nasse's law of transmission does not hold true.
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There is no evidence that the woman was of hemophilic descent.
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