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Sickle cell

sickle cell

(Science: haematology, pathology) 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.


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