Hemophilia

(noun)

A group of hereditary genetic disorders that impair the body's ability to control blood clotting or coagulation, which is used to stop bleeding when a blood vessel is broken.

Related Terms

  • thrombophilia
  • coagulation

Examples of Hemophilia in the following topics:

  • Human Sex-Linked Disorders

  • Hemostasis Disorders

    • Von Willebrand disease is similar to hemophilia in that it involves a deficiency in the ability of blood to clot properly.
    • Hemophilia is a disease where there is a low levels of, or none, of a blood protein important for clotting, causing an inability to produce blood clots.
    • Hemophilia is a recessive, sex-linked inheritable disorder, which is more common in men than women.
    • The second leading cause of death related to severe hemophilia complications is intracranial hemorrhage, which today accounts for one-third of all deaths of patients with hemophilia.
    • Differentiate among the hemostasis disorders of Von Willebran disease, hemophilia, and factor V Leiden thrombophilia
  • Sex-Linked Traits

    • Sex-linkage studies provided the fundamentals for understanding X-linked recessive disorders in humans, which include red-green color blindness and Types A and B hemophilia.
  • The Evolution of Health Care and Medicine

    • Proponents of alternative medicine say that people should be free to choose whatever method of healthcare they want, and Western Medicine proponents make the same argument, but each group tends to highlight the benefits of their approach (for example, alternative approaches to birth and hemophilia) and western approaches to infectious disease and immune deficiency) without regard for their tradition's faults and controversies (for example, alternative approaches to pain relief that offered no herbal or pharmaceutical relief or western creation and treatment of diseases that likely did not exist - like hysteria, which was ultimately a response to gender inequality with little to no biological basis or consequence).
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