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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