hemophilia
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- n congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
- Alfonso's Queen, Victoria Eugenia, niece of Britain's Edward VII, carried hemophilia to two of her four sons, bore two daughters who by the implacable laws of hemophilic heredity .
- Since then, the therapy has been used in trials to treat a host of other diseases, such as cancer and hemophilia.
- All that most laymen know about hemophilia is that it is an odd and dangerous disease of the blood that strikes men only, although it is transmitted by women.