Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Links
Main Page
Simple talk
Community portal
Statistics
New changes
Show any entry
Help
Give to Wiktionary
Word lists
Search
Search
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Contents
move to sidebar
hide
Beginning
1
Other spellings
2
Noun
Toggle Noun subsection
2.1
Synonyms
Toggle the table of contents
sickle-cell anaemia
1 language
English
Entry
Talk
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Page for printing
From Wiktionary
Other spellings
[
change
]
(
North America
)
sickle-cell anemia
Noun
[
change
]
Singular
sickle-cell anaemia
Plural
none
(
uncountable
), (
UK
) A
disease
where the
red blood cells
change to a
sickle
shape when there is a
shortage
of
oxygen
.
Synonyms
[
change
]
sickle-cell disease
Categories
:
Nouns
Multiword terms
Uncountable nouns
Diseases
Toggle limited content width
