NEETBiologyHuman Health and DiseasesMCQ+4 / −1
Christmas disease is another name for : -
- AHepatitis B
- BSleeping sickness
- CHaemophilia B
- DDown's syndrome
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Correct answer: C
Haemophilia B, a type of haemophilia is also known as christmas disease. It is due to deficiency of a blood coagulation factor, the christmas factor (factor IX). Christmas was the person (20th century) in whom the factor was first identified. Haemophilia B is a defect of the blood which prevents its clotting.
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