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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 805 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HAEMOPHILIA , the medical See also:

TERM

term for a See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of the vascular See also:

SYSTEM

system, often See also:

RUNNING

running in families, the members of which are known as " bleeders," characterized by a disposition towards bleeding, whether with or without the provocation of an injury to the See also:

TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue. When this. bleeding is spontaneous it comes from the mucous membranes, especially from the See also:

NOSE (O.Eng. nosu, cf. Dutch neus, Swed. nos, snout; the Aix in Provence. Both at Aix and at Lyons he acquired great connexion with O.Eng. nasu is obscure, cf. Ger. Nase, Lat. pares, distinction by his labours during outbreaks of the plague. In nostrils,

nose, but also from the mouth, bowel and bronchial tubes. Slight bruises are See also:

apt to be followed by extravasations of See also:

BLOOD

blood into the tissues; the swollen See also:

JOINTS

joints (See also:

KNEE (O. E. cneow, a word common to Indo-European languages, cf. Ger. Knie, Fr. genou, Span. hinojo, Lat. genu, Gr. ybvv, Sansk. janu)

knee especially) of a bleeder are probably due, in the first instance, to the See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape of blood into the See also:

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint cavity or synovial membrane. It is always from the smallest vessels that the blood escapes, and may do so in such quantities as to cause See also:

DEATH

death in a few See also:

HOURS, CANONICAL

hours.

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