bleeder's disease

noun

1. a nontechnical name for haemophilia

Example Sentences

A prenatal test for hemophilia Hemophilia, the bleeder's disease, evokes images of royal princes who suffered from this genetic malady, and of the Russian monk Rasputin, who gained influence over Nicholas and Alexandra by convincing them that he could control their son's bleeding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Burton does, frighteningly, for as he explained in Manhattan last week, he has suffered all his life from a mild form of "bleeder's disease," or hemophilia.

From Time Magazine Archive