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ID | DOID:12531 |
Name | von Willebrand's disease |
Definition | A blood coagulation disease that is a hereditary abnormality which slows the blood clotting process. It arises from a qualitative or quantitative deficiency of von Willebrand factor (vWF), a multimeric protein that is required for platelet adhesion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Willebrand_disease, http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/von-willebrand-disease |
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SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:11093006 |
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Synonyms |
vascular hemophilia [EXACT] vascular pseudohemophilia [EXACT] von Willebrand disease [EXACT] von Willebrand disorder [EXACT] von Willebrand's-Jurgens' disease [EXACT] von Willebrand-Jrgens disease [EXACT] |
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