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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 he·mo·phil·ia /ˌhiməˈfɪliə/
 血友病

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 he·mo·phil·ia /ˌhɪməˈfɪlɪə/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hem·o·phil·i·a n.   Med. 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hemophilia
      n : congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually
          affects males and is transmitted from mother to son [syn:
           haemophilia, bleeder's disease]