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A hemophiliac is a person who has hemophilia: their blood does not clot well, so they bleed too easily and for too long. This is the American spelling; British English . You will still see the word in news and older medical writing. Though actually, many patients and doctors now prefer to say a person with hemophilia, because hemophiliac can sound as if the illness is the whole of who someone is. Both forms point to the same fact about the body. It is a noun for the person, not the name of the illness itself — that name is hemophilia. It is not a word for someone who likes the sight of blood, even though -philiac in other words can mean a person with a strong liking.
血友病患者(較中性的說法是「有血友病的人」)
組成hemo- (blood) + -philiac (a person with that condition). Parallel with British haemophiliac.
同家族的字
- haemophiliacthe British spelling of the same word
- hemophiliathe condition this person has
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hemophiliacnoun
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medicinesciencesA person with hemophilia.
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rareA person with an attraction to blood.
- Wasn't the vampire really the haemophiliac of today? He certainly got some kind of a thrill from sucking blood
- She is, it quickly transpires, a haemophiliac vampire who, after being transported to the mother ship, sets about killing the crew one by one
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。