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Von willebrand's disease

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Noun
  1. 1
    An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity. uncountable

    ""Von Willebrand's disease is an autosomally transmitted disorder of hemostasis caused by a deficiency of or defect in the von Willebrand factor in the blood, a protein required for adherence of platelets to an injured vessel wall." - D. Green. Von Willebrand's disease. Postgraduate Medicine. 1980 Mar;67(3):241-5, 248. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=6965541"

  2. 2
    a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding wordnet

Etymology

Named after Erik Adolf von Willebrand, a Finnish physician who first described the disease in 1926.

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