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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A genetic disorder characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, caused by a clotting factor that affects platelet adhesion.
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- noun medicine An
hereditary disease , characterized by a tendency tohemorrhage , and caused by a defect inblood platelet activity.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Erik Adolf von Willebrand, (1870–1949), Finnish physician.]
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