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SICKLE-CELL ANAEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 anaemia" 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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