Christmas disease

Christmas disease
Christ·mas disease 'kris-məs- n a hereditary sex-linked hemorrhagic disease involving absence of a coagulation factor in the blood and failure of the clotting mechanism called also hemophilia B compare HEMOPHILIA
Christmas Stephen British child patient. Christmas was the youngest of seven patients in a study at an Oxford, England, hospital undertaken by Rosemary Biggs and her associates of a newly discovered condition resembling hemophilia. Christmas was the first patient examined in detail, and the disease was named after him. In 1952, Biggs and her associates published their first article on Christmas disease.

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a disorder that is identical in its effects to haemophilia A, but is due to a deficiency of a different blood coagulation factor, the Christmas factor (Factor IX).
S. Christmas (20th century), in whom the factor was first identified

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hemophilia B.

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  • Christmas disease — Pathol. a hereditary disease characterized by an inability of the blood to clot because of a deficiency of a coagulation factor. [1952; after S. Christmas, the first sufferer from the disease to be examined in detail] * * * …   Universalium

  • Christmas disease — noun a form of haemophilia caused by deficiency of a blood clotting factor (Factor IX) different from the one usually implicated in the disease. Origin 1950s: Christmas, from the surname of the first patient studied …   English new terms dictionary

  • Christmas disease — haemophilia B a disorder that is identical in its effects to haemophilia A, but is due to a deficiency of a different blood coagulation factor, the Christmas factor (Factor IX). [S. Christmas (20th century), in whom the factor was first… …   The new mediacal dictionary

  • Christmas disease — Congenital deficiency of blood clotting factor IX (first described in the Christmas issue of British Medical J., 1952). Inherited in similar sex linked way to classical haemophilia …   Dictionary of molecular biology

  • Christmas disease — /ˈkrɪsməs dəziz/ (say krismuhs duhzeez) noun haemophilia B. See haemophilia. {named after Stephen Christmas, a ten year old boy in England in whom the distinct variety of haemophilia was diagnosed in the 1950s} …  

  • Christmas disease — noun a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX • Syn: ↑hemophilia B, ↑haemophilia B • Hypernyms: ↑hemophilia, ↑haemophilia, ↑bleeder s disease …   Useful english dictionary

  • Christmas disease factor — Christ·mas disease, factor (krisґməs) [Stephen Christmas, 20th century Englishman, the first patient with the disease who was studied in detail] see hemophilia B and see factor IX at coagulation factors, under factor …   Medical dictionary

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  • Болезнь Кристмаса (Christmas Disease) — заболевание, сходное по своим симптомам с гемофилией, однако причиной его развития служит дефицит другого свертывающего фактора крови фактора Кристмаса (Christmas factor) (фактор IX). Источник: Медицинский словарь …   Медицинские термины

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