- von Wil|le|brand's disease
- von Wil|le|brand's disease «WIHL uh brandz, VIHL-»,= pseudohemophilia. (Cf. ↑pseudohemophilia)╂[< E. A. von Willebrand, 1870-1949, a German physician in Finland, who first described it]
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von Wil|le|brand's disease
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