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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chronic, severe, and sometimes fatal anemia marked by crescent-shaped red blood cells, occurring almost exclusively in black people, and characterized by episodic pain in the joints, fever, leg ulcers, and jaundice. The disease occurs in individuals who are homozygous for a mutant hemoglobin gene.
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