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a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape

see sickle-cell anemia

ˌsickle-cell aˈnaemia 7 [sickle-cell anaemia] (also ˈsickle-cell disease) noun uncountable

a serious form of ↑anaemia (= a disease of the blood) that is found mostly in people of African family origins, and which is passed down from parents to children