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haemophile

British  
/ ˈhiːməʊˌfaɪl, ˈhɛm- /

noun

  1. another name for haemophiliac

  2. a haemophilic bacterium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Her daughters could enjoy no small degree of happiness as wives with very small chance of giving birth to a haemophile.

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The blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing."

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Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile.

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The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death.

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When a haemophile receives even the slightest cut his wound heals so slowly that from the merest scratch he may bleed to death.

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