haemophile
Britishnoun
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another name for haemophiliac
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a haemophilic bacterium
Example Sentences
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The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death.
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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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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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When a haemophile receives the slightest scratch he begins to bleed profusely and the wound heals so slowly that the haemophile may easily bleed to death.
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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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