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Definition of Sickle cell

1. Noun. An abnormal red blood cell that has a crescent shape and an abnormal form of hemoglobin.

Medical Definition of Sickle cell

1. An erythrocyte that changes from the normal discoid shape to a sickled shape when the oxygen tension is low. The pesence of these cells indicates that the patient is homozygotes for the allele that codes for haemoglobin S and that the patient has sickle cell anaemia. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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