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hemophilia (n.)

1848 (also sometimes in Englished form hæmophily), from German hämophile, coined 1828 by German physician Johann Lucas Schönlein (1793-1864), from Greek haima "blood, bloodshed, streams of blood" (see -emia) + philia "to love" (see -philia), here with a sense of "tendency to."

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Definitions of hemophilia from WordNet

hemophilia (n.)
congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son;
Synonyms: haemophilia / bleeder's disease
From wordnet.princeton.edu