| sickle cell anemia |
The most common form of sickle cell disease. Other types of sickle cell disease include hemoglobin SC disease and sickle beta-thalassemia; there are also other, less common types of sickle cell disease.
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| sickle cell anemia |
A severe, chronic blood disease that is hereditary in origin. The abnormal gene produces a crescent shaped red blood cell, which causes the hemoglobin to crystallized within the cell and form painful blood clots and many other medical complications.
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| sickle cell anemia |
A genetic disease that primary occurs in people of African descent. Red blood cells change shape and lodge in the capillaries, obstructing blood flow to downstream tissue. This disease usually occurs in painful attacks and can cause serious damage to organs.
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| sickle cell anemia |
inherited disorder leading to production of crescent (sickle)-shaped erythrocytes and accelerated red-blood-cell destruction
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| sickle cell |
banana-shaped red cell found in the blood of an individual having sickle cell anemia
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