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The most common form of sickle-cell disease, with anemic effects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sickle-cell disease
a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell disease, crescent-cell anemia, crescent-cell anaemia, drepanocytic anemia, drepanocytic anaemia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: monogenic disorder, monogenic disease, anemia, anaemia
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
鐮刀型紅血球疾病 /镰刀型红血球疾病
(liándāoxíng hóngxuèqiú jíbìng)
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Czech:
srpkovitá anémie
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Dutch:
sikkelcelanemie
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Esperanto:
serpoĉela anemio
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Finnish:
sirppisoluanemia
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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French:
drépanocytose
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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French:
anémie falciforme
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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French:
drépanocytanémie
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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French:
sicklémie
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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German:
Sichelzellenanämie
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Hungarian:
sarlósejtes vérszegénység
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Italian:
drepanocitosi
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Japanese:
鎌状赤血球症
(kamajō sekkekkyūshō)
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Northern Kurdish:
kêmxwîniya xaneya dasî
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Polish:
anemia sierpowata
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Polish:
niedokrwistość sierpowatokrwinkowa
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Portuguese:
anemia falciforme
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Russian:
серповиднокле́точная анеми́я
(serpovidnoklétočnaja anemíja)
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Slovak:
kosáčikovitá anémia
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Spanish:
anemia falciforme
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Spanish:
drepanocitosis
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Spanish:
anemia de células falciformes
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Spanish:
anemia drepanocítica
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Swedish:
sickelcellanemi
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
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Turkish:
orak hücre anemisi
— disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells
