sickle cell

noun

Pathology.

1. an abnormal red blood cell having an elongated, crescentlike shape due to the presence of an abnormal hemoglobin.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sickle cell¹

First recorded in 1925–30; so called from the fact that the cells are often sickle-shaped

Example Sentences

They point to the fact that a sickle cell therapy that costs £1.65 million per patient and a haemophilia B one that cost £2.6 million have already been backed by the health assessment body.

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The most obvious way that a pair of blood-related parents might increase health risks for a child is through a recessive disorder, like cystic fibrosis or sickle cell disease.

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Asiawu Imam, 26, lives in London, where she works as a nurse looking after people who have sickle cell disorder.

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In recent years, for example, a hundred patients suffering from the hereditary disease sickle cell anaemia have been treated with CRISPR-Cas-based therapeutics -- without AZD7648.

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In the 1960s in North Carolina, Adams and her family would take her sister Linda, who had sickle cell anemia, to the emergency room because they had no doctor and could not afford health insurance.

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