Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun haemophilia

1 sense of haemophilia

Sense 1
hemophilia, haemophilia, bleeder's disease -- (congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son)
       => blood disease, blood disorder -- (a disease or disorder of the blood)
       => sex-linked disorder -- (any disease or abnormality that is determined by the sex hormones; "hemophilia is determined by a gene defect on an X chromosome")