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a room to which a sick person is confined
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ill: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" nauseated: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit brainsick: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" disgusted: having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke" pale: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing" people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick" vomit: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" ghastly: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
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| sickle cell |
an abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin
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illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment" nausea: the state that precedes vomiting
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| sickle cell crisis |
a broad term used to describe several different acute conditions occurring with sickle cell disease, including aplastic crisis, hemolytic crisis, and vaso-occlusive crisis.
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