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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hereditary condition, usually harmless and without symptoms, in which an individual carries only one mutated hemoglobin gene for sickle cell anemia. The sickle cell trait confers resistance to some forms of fatal malaria.
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