SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA


Meaning of SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA in English

Function: noun

Date: 1922

: a chronic inherited anemia that occurs primarily in individuals of African, Mediterranean, or southwest Asian ancestry who are homozygous for the gene controlling hemoglobin S and that is characterized especially by episodic blocking of small blood vessels by sickle cells ― called also sickle-cell disease

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