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von Willebrand's disease
[ fawn-vil-uh-brahnts di-zeez ]
noun
, Pathology.
- an inherited autosomal recessive disease in which abnormally slow coagulation of blood may lead to spontaneous bleeding, excessive bleeding following an injury, and heavy menstrual flow.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of von Willebrand's disease1
1940–45; after Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870–1949), Finnish physician
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