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A disease characterized by chronic hemolytic anemia, episodic painful crises, and pathologic involvement of many organs. It is the clinical expression of homozygosity for hemoglobin S.
- (Source - Diseases Database)

A congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Disease characterized by chronic hemolytic anemia, episodic painful crises, and pathologic involvement of many organs; the clinical expression of homozygosity for hemoglobin S.
- (Source - CRISP)

Sickle cell anemia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Sickle cell anemia, or a subtype of Sickle cell anemia, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
- (Source - National Institute of Health)

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