Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Ow·ren's disease Pronunciation:
'O-renz- Function:
noun : PARAHEMOPHILIA Owren,
Paul A. (b 1905), Norwegian hematologist. Owren conducted research on diseases of the blood, blood coagulation,thrombosis, coronary artery disease, and anticoagulin therapy. In 1947 he published a monograph on blood coagulation in which he reported on his study of an abnormal bleeding tendency in a woman causedby a deficiency of a newly discovered coagulation-promoting globulin. He called this globulin factor V. The condition caused by a deficiency of factor V is called parahemophilia or Owren's disease.
