sickle cell anaemia
noun [U] (mainly US sickle cell anemia)Definition
› a medical condition that causes pain and fever, passed from parent to child and found especially in black peopleDisorders and diseases of the heart and blood
(Definition of sickle cell anaemia noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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