sickle cell trait

English

Noun

sickle cell trait (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A genotype, and the carrier state constituted by it, that is the heterozygous counterpart to sickle-cell disease (which involves a homozygous hit). It is not classified as a disease entity because it usually has little clinical effect (generally asymptomatic).
    Coordinate terms: sickle-cell disease, sickle-cell anemia
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