sickle-cell anemia

Questions about sickle-cell anemia

What does sickle-cell anemia mean?

sickle-cell anemia means "a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape".

What is another word for sickle-cell anemia?

Close synonyms include sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell disease, crescent-cell anemia, crescent-cell anaemia, drepanocytic anemia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sickle-cell anemia a common word?

sickle-cell anemia 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.