bleeder's disease

noun

a nontechnical name for haemophilia

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A prenatal test for hemophilia Hemophilia, the bleeder's disease, evokes images of royal princes who suffered from this genetic malady, and of the Russian monk Rasputin, who gained influence over Nicholas and Alexandra by convincing them that he could control their son's bleeding.