sickle cell anemia
11sickle-cell anemia — noun A disease characterized by sickle shaped red blood cells. Syn: sickle cell disease …
12sickle cell anemia — Synonyms and related words: Christmas disease, Hand Schuller Christian disease, Hartnup disease, Letterer Siwe syndrome, Werdnig Hoffmann disease, achromatic vision, acute leukemia, albinism, anemia, angiohemophilia, aplastic anemia, chronic… …
13sickle cell anemia — sick′le cell ane′mia n. pat a chronic hereditary blood disease, primarily affecting indigenous Africans and their descendants, in which an accumulation of oxygen deficient sickle cells results in anemia, blood clotting, and joint pain Also called …
14sickle-cell anemia — Blood disorder (see hemoglobinopathy) seen mainly in persons of Sub Saharan African ancestry and their descendants and in those from the Middle East, the Mediterranean area, and India. About 1 in 400 blacks worldwide has the disease, caused by… …
15sickle cell anemia — Pathol. a chronic hereditary blood disease, occurring primarily among Africans or persons of African descent, in which abnormal hemoglobin causes red blood cells to become sickle shaped and nonfunctional, characterized by enlarged spleen, chronic …
16sickle cell anemia — (Medicine) hereditary disease characterized by anemia resulting from defective hemoglobin production (causes deformed red blood cells, oxygen deficiency, and circulatory problems) …
17Fitnesses of the three genotypes at the sickle cell anemia locus in a population from Nigeria — ▪ Table Fitnesses of the three genotypes at the sickle cell anemia locus in a population from Nigeria genotype total frequency of HbS HbAHbA HbAHbS HbSHbS observed number 9,365 2,993 29 12,387 observed frequency 0.7560 0.2416 0.0023 …
18sickle cell — n 1) an abnormal red blood cell of crescent shape 2) a condition characterized by sickle cells: SICKLE CELL ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL TRAIT * * * see drepanocyte * * * an erythrocyte shaped like a sickle or crescent owing to the presence of …
19sickle-cell disease — n SICKLE CELL ANEMIA * * * a hereditary blood disease that mainly affects people of African ancestry but also occurs in the Mediterranean region and reaches high frequencies in parts of Saudi Arabia and India. It occurs when the sickle cell gene… …
20sickle-cell anaemia — sickle cell a naemia BrE sickle cell anemia AmE n [U] a serious illness that mainly affects black people, in which the blood cells change shape, causing weakness and fever …
