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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of hemophilia that is caused by a deficiency of factor IX.
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- noun idiomatic haemophilia B
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- noun a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Stephen Christmas, 20th-century British boy who was first diagnosed with it.]
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