Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun von_willebrand's_disease

1 sense of von willebrand's disease

Sense 1
von Willebrand's disease, angiohemophilia, vascular hemophilia -- (a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding)
       => hemophilia, haemophilia, bleeder's disease -- (congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son)