vonWillebrand's disease

von Wil·le·brand's disease (vŏn wĭlʹə-brăndz', fôn vĭlʹə-bränts') n.

A hereditary disease characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, caused by a deficiency or abnormality of the blood proteins that control platelet activity.

  [After Erik Adolfvon Willebrand (1870-1949), Finnish physician.]

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