Medical Definition of Crescent cell

1. An erythrocyte that changes from the normal discoid shape to a sickled shape when the oxygen tension is low. The pesence of these cells indicates that the patient is homozygotes for the allele that codes for haemoglobin S and that the patient has sickle cell anaemia. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crescent Cell

crescence
crescendi
crescendo
crescendo angina
crescendo murmur
crescendo sleep
crescendoed
crescendoes
crescendoing
crescendos
crescent
crescent(a)
crescent-cell anaemia
crescent-cell anemia
crescent-shaped
crescent cell (current term)
crescent cell anaemia
crescent moon
crescent moons
crescent roll
crescent rolls
crescent spanner
crescent spanners
crescented
crescentic
crescentic lobules of the cerebellum
crescenting
crescents
crescentwise

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