pseudohemophilia
/ˌsudoʊˌhiːməˈfiːliə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of several disorders of prolonged blood clotting time, seeming clinically similar to the hemophilias, but pathophysiologically different therefrom, without the same clotting factor derangements as found therein; at least some of these disorders are types of von Willebrand disease, and nowadays would be called and diagnosed thus.
Countable; Dated; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "On examining hemostasis, the only consistent abnormal laboratory finding was a prolonged bleeding time, so that the hemorrhagic disorder fell into the group of so-called pseudohemophilias."
- "The original description of a novel severe bleeding disorder as "Hereditary Pseudohemophilia" by Erik von Willebrand can currently be labelled as von Willebrand disease (VWD) type 3. […] [¶] All five daughters, who died from uncontrolled bleedings, very likely would have been homozygous for the deletion in exon 18 consistent with pseudohemophilia, now called VWD type 3. […] [¶] These data demonstrate that the original family S, described by Erik von Willebrand as pseudohemophilia A, has to be diagnosed as autosomal recessive VWD type 3 caused by a homozygous null mutation (one nuclotide deletion of exon 18)."