sickle-cell anemia
sickle–cell anemia
nounDefinition of SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA
: a chronic inherited anemia that occurs primarily in individuals of African, Mediterranean, or southwest Asian ancestry who are homozygous for the gene controlling hemoglobin S and that is characterized especially by episodic blocking of small blood vessels by sickle cells —called also sickle-cell disease
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1922
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