(thing) by Impartial Wed Sep 20 2000 at 6:34:16

A layman's term for a person with haemophilia, a genetic disorder in which certain clotting factors in the blood are not produced. Severe forms of the disease may give rise to the "profuse or uncontrollable bleeding" mentioned in Webster.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:10:10

Bleed"er (?), n. Med. (a)

One who, or that which, draws blood.

(b)

One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

<-- hemophiliac. -->

 

© Webster 1913.

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