hemophiliac
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- noun
- /ˌhiːməˈfɪliæk/
- Specialized
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hemofílico
- She's a hemophiliac.
Examples
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As a hemophiliac, Taylor was born without the proteins that enable blood to clot.
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Being a type-A hemophiliac, he can't even punch the wall to let out anger and frustration.
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Once we got it under control... he made me an offer to take care of his hemophiliac son.
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Yeah, but I might be a hemophiliac.
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A hemophiliac?
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- I'm a hemophiliac.
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Ryan, a hemophiliac, was given a contaminated blood transfusion when he was a child.
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His brother Bill, also a hemophiliac, died from AIDS in 1990 at the age of 28.
Synonyms
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A person who loses blood easily after small injuries
A person who has a blood condition that makes them bleed easily
Surface Forms
Morphology
hemophiliac = hemophilia (transparent) = hemophilia + iac
Formed by adding the suffix '-iac' to 'hemophilia' to denote a person affected by the condition, so the meaning is directly derived from the base.
Etymology
Hemophiliac comes from Greek parts haima meaning 'blood' and -philia meaning 'love', an image doctors used to say the blood 'loves' to flow and does not stop easily. So, a hemophiliac is a person whose blood does not clot well and who can bleed a lot from small injuries.