drepanocytic anemia
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| Noun | 1. | drepanocytic anemia - 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, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell disease monogenic disease, monogenic disorder - an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes |