sickle-cell anaemia

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ˌsickle-cell aˈnaemia British English, sickle-cell anemia American English noun [uncountable] MIa serious illness that mainly affects black people, in which the blood cells change shape, causing weakness and fever 镰状细胞贫血〔患此病者多为黑人〕

Examples from the Corpus

sickle-cell anaemia• The build-up of recessive genes increases the incidence of genetically determined diseases, such as sickle-cell anaemia in humans.

ˌsickle-cell aˈnaemia nounChineseSyllable

mainly serious a black Corpus that illness affects

sickle-cell anaemia
ˌsickle-cell aˈnaemia

British English, sickle-cell anemia American English noun [uncountable]
a serious illness that mainly affects black people, in which the blood cells change shape, causing weakness and fever

sickle-cell anaemia

BrE

/ˌsɪkl sel əˈniːmiə/

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NAmE

/ˌsɪkl sel əˈniːmiə/

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(

also ˈsickle-cell disease

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noun

[uncountable]

a serious form of

anaemia

(= a disease of the blood)

that is found mostly in people of African family origins, and which is passed down from parents to children 镰状细胞贫血（多见于非裔的遗传病）