sicklemian.
/sɪk(ə)lˈiːmɪə/ Pathology.
Sickle cell anæmia or the sickle cell trait.
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ischemy1855
pernicious anaemia1874
ischaemia1878
Addison's anaemia1886
Addisonian pernicious anaemia1894
favism1903
Addisonian anaemia1904
hypoplastic anaemia1906
sickle cell anaemia1922
sicklemia1932
thalassaemia1932
Cooley's anaemia1934
Mediterranean disease1936
target cell anaemia1938
1932 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 183 386 The term sicklemia has been suggested instead of sickle-cell anemia because a grave anemia is not constantly found in these patients. It is perhaps best reserved for those cases that show sickling without anemia.
1949 Science 25 Nov. 545/2 We have assumed that one of the two components of sicklemia hemoglobin is identical with sickle cell anemia hemoglobin and the other is identical with the normal compound.
1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xviii. 492 The hereditary trait of sickling of red corpuscles is usually found in apparently normal individuals. However, 2 to 4 per cent of Negroes with sicklemia have sickle cell anemia because of hemolysis of the abnormal red cells.
1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins iv. 61/1 In thalassemia and, to a less marked extent, sicklemia, there are changes in bone marrow.
Derivatives
sicklˈemic adj.
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ischaemous1684
ischaemic1876
normocytic1911
Plummer–Vinson syndrome1926
sicklemic1949
sideroblastic1956
sideroachrestic1959
1949 Science 25 Nov. 543/1 Less than 1 percent of those [erythrocytes] in the venous circulation of sicklemic individuals..are normally sickled.
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