SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape

Synonyms:

crescent-cell anaemia; crescent-cell anemia; drepanocytic anaemia; drepanocytic anemia; sickle-cell anaemia; sickle-cell anemia; sickle-cell disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("sickle-cell anemia" is a kind of...):

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

anaemia; anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells)

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