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von Willebrand's disease

[ fawn-vil-uh-brahnts di-zeez ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. an inherited autosomal recessive disease in which abnormally slow coagulation of blood may lead to spontaneous bleeding, excessive bleeding following an injury, and heavy menstrual flow.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of von Willebrand's disease1

1940–45; after Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870–1949), Finnish physician

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