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crescent shaped blood cells are from sickle cell anemia

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What are abnormal crescent shaped BLOOD cell?

Sickle cells. Sickle cell anemia is the disease characterized by sickle-shaped blood cells.


How can you conclude that a person has sicle cell anemia by looking at blood counts?

The red blood cells would be shaped like crescent moons.


What problems arise from the crescent shaped cells caused by sickle cell anemia?

The misshapen cells may clog blood vessels, preventing oxygen from reaching tissues and leading to pain, blood clots and other problems.


What is the difference between sickle cell and blood cell?

Sickle cells are a sickle or crescent shape that can only carry a fractional amount of oxygen and nutrients. Normal cells are shaped like doughnuts.


Does sickle cell anaemia have white blood cells?

Sickle Cell Anaemia is a genetic disorder that affects the red blood cells. The shape of the cells are changed from being round and flexible to sickle or crescent shaped. These abnormal cells can then clog the blood vessels, causing extreme pain and discomfort. These episodes are known as sickle cell crisis.


Why do sickled red blood cells cuase so many problems?

Its not sickled blood cells that cause problems, it's sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia (uh-NEE-me-uh) is the most common form of sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD is a serious disorder in which the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells. "Sickle-shaped" means that the red blood cells are shaped like a crescent. Normal red blood cells are disc-shaped and look like doughnuts without holes in the center. They move easily through your blood vessels. Red blood cells contain an iron-rich protein called hemoglobin (HEE-muh-glow-bin). This protein carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. Sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin called sickle hemoglobin or hemoglobin S.Sickle hemoglobin causes the cells to develop a sickle, or crescent, shape. Sickle cells are stiff and sticky. They tend to block blood flow in the blood vessels of the limbs and organs. Blocked blood flow can cause pain, serious infections, and organ damage.


Which cells are shaped like pinched disks?

red blood cells


How do cancer cells kill an organism?

Cancer kills an organism by destroying the red blood cells.


What do white blood cells eat?

sickness and deseses cells in your body such as cancer cells sickness and deseses cells in your body such as cancer cells


What is a cancer of the cells that produce white blood cells?

Leukemia


Is non-hodgkins lymphoma a kind of cancer?

Yes it is it runs in the blood. The white blood cells transform into cancer cells. As you may well know, the white blood cells run in the blood and go to injured parts of the body. Protein helps develop more white blood cells. As you probably already know blood cells transform at lightning speed into cancer cells. Good luck to anybody reading this who has any type of cancer.


Irregular shaped Red blood cells are?

poikilocytosis