sickle-cell haemoglobin disease
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sickle-cell disease — n SICKLE CELL ANEMIA * * * a hereditary blood disease that mainly affects people of African ancestry but also occurs in the Mediterranean region and reaches high frequencies in parts of Saudi Arabia and India. It occurs when the sickle cell gene… … Medical dictionary
Sickle-cell disease — This article is about the disease itself. For the genetic transmission of sickle cell disease and its carrier state, see sickle cell trait. Sickle cell disease Classification and external resources Normal and sickle shaped red blood cells ICD 10 … Wikipedia
sickle-cell disease — drepanocytosis a hereditary blood disease that mainly affects people of African ancestry but also occurs in the Mediterranean region and reaches high frequencies in parts of Saudi Arabia and India. It occurs when the sickle cell gene has been… … The new mediacal dictionary
Sickle cell trait — Infobox Disease Name = Sickle cell trait Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD10|D|57|3|d|55 ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = 603903 MedlinePlus = 000527 eMedicineSubj = search eMedicineTopic = Sickle%20cell MeshID = Sickle cell trait describes the way a person … Wikipedia
sickle cell anaemia — noun A severe hereditary form of anaemia, mainly affecting people of African origin, in which mutated haemoglobin distorts red blood cells into a crescent shape, causing the cells to become stuck in capillaries. Downstream tissues are thus… … Wiktionary
sickle-cell anaemia — (also sickle cell disease) noun a severe hereditary form of anaemia in which a mutated form of haemoglobin distorts the red blood cells into a crescent shape at low oxygen levels … English new terms dictionary
sickle cell anaemia — Disease common in races of people from areas in which malaria is endemic. The cause is a point mutation in haemoglobin (valine instead of glutamic acid at position 6), and the altered haemoglobin (HbS) crystallises readily at low oxygen tension.… … Dictionary of molecular biology
Болезнь Серповидноклеточная (Sickle-Cell Disease), Дрепаноцитоз (Drepanocytosis) — наследственное заболевание крови, распространенное в основном среди жителей африканского происхождения; иногда оно может также встречаться у жителей Средиземноморья. Большое количество случаев этой болезни было зарегистрировано в Саудовской… … Медицинские термины
Red blood cell — Human red blood cells (6 8μm) Red blood cells (abbreviated RBCs; also referred to as erythrocytes or simply, as red cells[1]) are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism s principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the… … Wikipedia
БОЛЕЗНЬ СЕРПОВИДНОКЛЕТОЧНАЯ — (sickle cell disease), ДРЕПАНОЦИТОЗ (drepanocytosis) наследственное заболевание крови, распространенное в основном среди жителей африканского происхождения; иногда оно может также встречаться у жителей Средиземноморья. Большое количество случаев… … Толковый словарь по медицине
Hemoglobin electrophoresis — Haemoglobin electrophoresis is a blood test that can detect different types of haemoglobin. It uses the principles of gel electrophoresis to separate out the various types of hemoglobin. The test can detect abnormal levels of HbS, the form… … Wikipedia
