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The launch of a National Health Equity Initiative focused on addressing health challenges such as sickle cell disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, and mental illness that disproportionately affect African-American men.
—Richard Fowler, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Throughout their lives, sickle cell patients may experience excruciating bouts of pain, called a sickle cell crisis.
—Desiree Hadley, Essence, 27 Sep. 2024
This dynamic offers an explanation for why the sickle cell mutation persisted in sub-Saharan Africa, which still has the highest prevalence of sickle cell disease, and spread around the Mediterranean and into the Middle East.
—Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Meanwhile, Pfizer last month pulled a key sickle cell disease drug from global markets – the centerpiece of its roughly $5 billion buyout of Global Blood Therapeutics in 2022.
—Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1923, in the meaning defined above
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“Sickle cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sickle%20cell. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
sickle cell
noun
: an abnormal red blood cell that is crescent-shaped
Medical Definition
sickle cell
noun1
: an abnormal rigid, sticky red blood cell of crescent shape
2
: a condition characterized by sickle cells : sickle cell anemia, sickle-cell trait
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