christmas disease

Christ·mas dis·ease

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noun christmas disease a relatively mild type of haemophilia, caused by lack of a protein (Christmas factor) implicated in the process of blood clotting 3
noun christmas disease a hereditary disease characterized by an inability of the blood to clot because of a deficiency of a coagulation factor. 1

before 1952

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1952; after S. Christmas, the first sufferer from the disease to be examined in detail

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