hemophiliac
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- haemophiliac (UK)
- hæmophiliac (UK)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hemophiliac (plural hemophiliacs)
- (medicine) A person with hemophilia.
- (rare) A person with an attraction to blood.
- 1973, Ed Wood, A Study in the Motivation of Censorship, Sex and the Movies; quoted in Will Sloan, Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, 2025, page 45:
- Wasn't the vampire really the haemophiliac of today? He certainly got some kind of a thrill from sucking blood
- 1995, Phil Hardy, Science Fiction, White Lion Publishing:
- She is, it quickly transpires, a haemophiliac vampire who, after being transported to the mother ship, sets about killing the crew one by one
- 2016 February 22, Mark Pizzato, Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 142:
- Likewise, in Immortality (a.k.a. The Wisdom of Crocodiles, Po-Chih Leong, 1998), a hemophiliac vampire, Steven Grlscz, tries to restrain his bloodlust for Anne, whom he loves.
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