sickle-cell disease
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Noun | 1. | sickle-cell disease - a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape crescent-cell anaemia, crescent-cell anemia, drepanocytic anaemia, drepanocytic anemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia monogenic disease, monogenic disorder - an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes |
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