Definitions | sickle cell anaemia |
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- (pathology) 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 capillary, capillaries. Downstream tissues are thus deprived of oxygen causing ischaemia and infarction.
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