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Sickle Cell

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Noun

1. sickle cell

an abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sickle Cell

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an inherited chronic anemia found chiefly among blacks, characterized by an abnormal red blood cell (sickle cell) containing a defective form of hemoglobin that causes the cell to become sickle-shaped when deprived of oxygen
: also sickle cell disease

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sickle Cell

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n.
An abnormal, crescent-shaped red blood cell that results from a single change in the amino acid sequence of the cell's hemoglobin, which causes the cell to contort, especially under low-oxygen conditions.

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