See Also: sickle cell disease(medicine)
Sickle Cell Disease(health)
Disease, sickle cell(health)
Sickle-cell disease(health)
sickle cell C disease(medicine)
sickle cell-thalassaemia disease(medicine)
sickle-cell(dictionary)
Sickle cell(medicine)
sickle cell crisis(medicine)
sickle cell haemoglobin(medicine)

sickle cell C disease (medicine)


sickle cell C disease


A disease resulting from abnormal sickle-shaped erythrocytes (containing haemoglobin C and S) which appear in response to a lowering of the partial pressure of oxygen; characterised by anaemia, crises due to haemolysis or vascular occlusion, chronic leg ulcers and bone deformities, and infarcts of bone or of the spleen.