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SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sickle-cell anemia mean?
• SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA (noun)
The noun SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA has 1 sense:
1. a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
Familiarity information: SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
crescent-cell anaemia; crescent-cell anemia; drepanocytic anaemia; drepanocytic anemia; sickle-cell anaemia; sickle-cell anemia; sickle-cell disease
Hypernyms ("sickle-cell anemia" is a kind of...):
monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)
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