Word: bleeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compact (5 ft. 3 in., 125 lbs.) Bassey has one of the fastest pairs of fists in boxing, but he is also a bleeder who cuts easily around the eyes. He lost two fights earlier in his career when cuts were opened up. Davey Moore. 25, a minister's son and ex-Golden Glover from Springfield, Ohio, was just the kind of fighter who spells bad news for Bassey-a rugged slugger with a darting left and a clubbing right. The fight crowd knew it, and Bassey was no better than even money at the opening bell...
...three of the other female hemophiliacs' families were British, all fitted the classic Mendelian inheritance pattern: a father-bleeder, a non-bleeding mother-carrier. One of the hemophiliac daughters successfully bore a child (TIME, July 16, 1951), but was later forced to undergo surgical removal of the uterus after she nearly bled to death...
According to common belief, only men can be victims as well as transmitters, and women can only be transmitters of hemophilia.* Common belief is almost, but not quite, true. By Mendelian laws of inheritance, the daughter of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier can be a bleeder. Doctors believed that such a child would die in the womb. . The British doctors report that a patient of 24 who visited a Manchester clinic during her first pregnancy had a history of easy bruising and free bleeding. Nevertheless she had a natural delivery and went home ten days later. Then...
...patient's family tree shows clearly that she is the offspring of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier. Her blood meets all the tests for true hemophilia. The doctors are sure that they have found a case to fit the classic Mendelian pattern. But they have no idea how she came to be born alive, or how she survived the hazards of growing up, menstruation and pregnancy...
...Another common belief, that hemophilia is "the curse of the Habsburgs," is unfounded. It was a lethal gift to the royal families of Europe from Britain's Queen Victoria. Of her four sons only the youngest, Leopold, was a bleeder, died at 31. But two of Victoria's daughters, Alice and Beatrice, carried the disease to their German offspring. Through one of Alice's daughters, it passed to the Czarevitch Alexis (murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918); through Beatrice's daughter to sons of Spain's Alfonso XIII...