sickle-cell disease

Questions about sickle-cell disease

What does sickle-cell disease mean?

sickle-cell disease 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 disease?

Close synonyms include sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell anaemia, 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 disease a common word?

sickle-cell disease 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.