Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crescent-cell_anaemia

1 sense of crescent-cell anaemia

Sense 1
sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell disease, crescent-cell anemia, crescent-cell anaemia, drepanocytic anemia, drepanocytic anaemia -- (a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape)
       => anemia, anaemia -- (a deficiency of red blood cells)
       => monogenic disorder, monogenic disease -- (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)