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Defenition of the word sickle-cell disease

    • Defenition of the word sickle-cell disease

      • A life-long blood disorder characterized by red blood cells that assume an abnormal, rigid, sickle shape.
      • a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape

    Synonyms for the word sickle-cell disease

      • crescent-cell anemia
      • drepanocytic anemia
      • sickle-cell anemia

    Hypernyms for the word sickle-cell disease

      • anaemia
      • anemia
      • congenital disease
      • genetic abnormality
      • genetic disease
      • genetic disorder
      • inherited disease
      • inherited disorder
      • monogenic disease
      • monogenic disorder

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