Wiktionary
alt. (context North America English) A disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells. n. (context North America English) A disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells.
WordNet
n. a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape [syn: sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell disease, crescent-cell anemia, crescent-cell anaemia, drepanocytic anemia, drepanocytic anaemia]
Usage examples of "sickle-cell anemia".
No more sickle-cell anemia, no more hemophilia or cystic fibrosis, no more jerry-built eyeballs that made you myopic, no more saddle-bag flab or hay fever or dinky cocks or bald heads twinkling in the moonlight to put a damper on ro.
No child born of their laboratory would ever have Epstein-Barr, or sickle-cell anemia, familial hypercholesterolemia, Huntington’.