medical Definition of anti-sickling
: preventing or counteracting the sickling of red blood cells (as in sickle cell anemia)
- anti-sickling drugs
- When they slipped the gene into blood-making cells of mice with the disease, the anti-sickling hemoglobin made it into 99 percent of the red cells and reversed key symptoms …
- —Rachel K. Sobel, U.S. News & World Report, 24 Dec. 2001
