von Willebrand's disease
noun1
- An hereditary disease, characterized by a tendency to hemorrhage, and caused by a defect in blood platelet activity.
- "Von Willebrand's disease is an autosomally transmitted disorder of hemostasis caused by a deficiency of or defect in the von Willebrand factor in the blood, a protein required for adherence of platelets to an injured vessel wall." - D. Green. Von Willebrand's disease. Postgraduate Medicine. 1980 Mar;67(3):241-5, 248. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=6965541