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From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: pseudo- + hemophilia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: pseudo- + hemophilia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.