A person who has hemophilia and experiences excessive bleeding due to a genetic deficiency in blood clotting factors.
From haemophilia + '-ac' (a person affected by a condition). This suffix variation parallels medical terms like 'insomniac' (a person with insomnia), creating a more personalized designation than the disease name alone.
Before modern clotting factor treatments (developed in the 1960s-80s), hemophiliacs faced a brutal existence—a simple cut could become life-threatening, and the HIV crisis devastated the hemophiliac community when blood products became contaminated.
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