sickle cell

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   an abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin

   Broaderred blood cell

Questions about sickle cell

What does sickle cell mean?

sickle cell means "an abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin".

Is sickle cell a common word?

sickle cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.