sickle cell anaemia

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sickle cell anaemia (uncountable)

  1. (pathology, Britain) A severe hereditary form of anaemia, mainly affecting people of African origin, in which mutated haemoglobin distorts red blood cells into a crescent shape, causing the cells to become stuck in capillaries. Downstream tissues are thus deprived of oxygen causing ischaemia and infarction.

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sickle cell anaemia — see sickle-cell anemia
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