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Nastya

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what HEMOPHILIA means
« on: January 27, 2006, 08:14:20 PM »
in scientific form hemo means blood and philia means love. their for hemophilia means blood love. very weird i know.
hemophiliac means blood lover. so its really a weird name for a disease but it fits it becuase with love you gets lots and lots of it. and a hemophiliac gets lots and lots of flowing blood.
why hemophiliacs bleed so much when they get a bruise is becuase their blood is missing the hemoglobin that clots the blood when a blood vessel is bumped or damaged.
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grandduchess_42

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Re: what HEMOPHILIA means
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2006, 08:27:06 PM »
thank you nastya. great help for those people who didn't know what it ment. i understood it, but i never knew what the word accually meant. thanks again :D
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Tati-Fan

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Re: what HEMOPHILIA means
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2006, 05:54:30 AM »
The "-philia" suffix can also mean "tendency toward," so "hemophilia" in this case means something like "tendency toward bleeding/letting out blood."
« Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 PM by Tati-Fan »
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komarov

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Re: what HEMOPHILIA means
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2006, 03:25:47 PM »
Yes, Tati-fan's explanation is a bit more accurate, idiomatically speaking (if such can be used for Latin).

Thanks to both of you for clearing this up for everyone else!
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