| 释义 |
Christmas disease
[f. the name of S. Christmas, a sufferer from the disease.]
(See quot. 19611.)
1952R. Briggs et al. in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Dec. 1378/1 If this definition of haemophilia is accepted then the seven cases recorded in this paper are..a newly recognized condition which we propose to call ‘Christmas disease’, after the name of the first patient examined in detail. 1961Brit. Med. Dict. 304/2 Christmas disease, a hereditary bleeding disease..very closely resembling haemophilia in clinical and genetic features... It differs from haemophilia in that the blood contains the anti-haemophilic globulin in normal amounts but does not contain a serum factor (termed the Christmas factor) which is present in haemophilic blood. 1961Lancet 12 Aug. 374/1 The American workers found their thrombotic principle was absent from Christmas disease. |