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Christmas disease

American

noun

Pathology.

a hereditary disease characterized by an inability of the blood to clot because of a deficiency of a coagulation factor.

Christmas disease British

noun

a relatively mild type of haemophilia, caused by lack of a protein ( Christmas factor ) implicated in the process of blood clotting

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Etymology

Origin of Christmas disease

1952; after S. Christmas, the first sufferer from the disease to be examined in detail

Example Sentences

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He then played at Boston University, but as a junior he suffered bleeding in a leg and learned that he had Christmas disease, a form of hemophilia.

From New York Times • May 19, 2018

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