Sickle
41Sickle-cell disease — This article is about the disease itself. For the genetic transmission of sickle cell disease and its carrier state, see sickle cell trait. Sickle cell disease Classification and external resources Normal and sickle shaped red blood cells ICD 10 …
42Sickle cell trait — Infobox Disease Name = Sickle cell trait Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD10|D|57|3|d|55 ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = 603903 MedlinePlus = 000527 eMedicineSubj = search eMedicineTopic = Sickle%20cell MeshID = Sickle cell trait describes the way a person …
43Sickle cell anemia — A genetic blood disease due to the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin, namely hemoglobin S. Hemoglobin is the molecule in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the farthest areas of the body. Sickle cell anemia affects… …
44Sickle cell disease — A genetic blood disease due to the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin, namely hemoglobin S. Hemoglobin is the molecule in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the farthest reaches of the body. Sickle cell disease, also …
45sickle 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 …
46sickle-cell anaemia — noun a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape • Syn: ↑sickle cell anemia, ↑sickle cell disease, ↑crescent cell anemia, ↑crescent cell anaemia, ↑drepanocytic anemia,… …
47sickle-cell disease — noun a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape • Syn: ↑sickle cell anemia, ↑sickle cell anaemia, ↑crescent cell anemia, ↑crescent cell anaemia, ↑drepanocytic anemia,… …
48Sickle cell trait — The condition in which a person has one copy of the gene for sickle cell (and is called a sickle heterozygote) but does not have sickle cell disease (which requires two copies of the sickle cell gene). If two people with sickle cell trait mate… …
49sickle-cell disease — drepanocytosis 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 has been… …
50sickle alfalfa — noun European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle shaped pods • Syn: ↑sickle lucerne, ↑sickle medick, ↑Medicago falcata • Hypernyms: ↑medic, ↑medick, ↑trefoil * * * noun …
