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DREPANOCYTIC ANEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drepanocytic anemia mean? 

DREPANOCYTIC ANEMIA (noun)
  The noun DREPANOCYTIC ANEMIA has 1 sense:

1. a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shapeplay

  Familiarity information: DREPANOCYTIC ANEMIA used as a noun is very rare.


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DREPANOCYTIC ANEMIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

crescent-cell anaemia; crescent-cell anemia; drepanocytic anaemia; drepanocytic anemia; sickle-cell anaemia; sickle-cell anemia; sickle-cell disease

Hypernyms ("drepanocytic anemia" is a kind of...):

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

anaemia; anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells)


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