Hemophilia
Hemophilia (hē`mȧ*fil"i*ȧ or hem`ȧ*fil"i*ȧ) , noun
[New Latin, from Greek a"i^ma, blood + filei^n to love.]
(Medicine) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds; it is caused by an absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood, and is a recessive genetic disease linked to the X-chromosome, and therefore usually occurs only in males; there are several specific forms. It may be treated by administering purified clotting factor. It was formerly termed Hematophilia.