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   ‖Hemophilia (hēˌmȧ‑fĭlˈĭ‑ȧ or  hĕmˌȧ‑fĭlˈĭ‑ȧ), n.  [NL., fr. Gr. αἷμα, blood + φιλεῖν to love.] (Med.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds; it is caused by an absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood, and is a recessive genetic disease linked to the X-chromosome, and therefore usually occurs only in males; there are several specific forms.  It may be treated by administering purified clotting factor.  It was formerly termed Hematophilia.
   
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