Definition of Hemoglobinopathy
1. Noun. A blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood.
Medical Definition of Hemoglobinopathy
1.
Disorder due to abnormalities in the haemoglobin molecule, the best known being sickle cell anaemia in which there is a single amino acid substitution (valine for glutamate) in position 6 of the beta chain. In other cases one of the globin chains is synthesised at a slower rate, despite being normal in structure.
See: thalassaemia.
Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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