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What do sickle shaped red blood cells do in capillaries and vesseles?
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Which are smallest blood vesseles in the body?
Capillaries
What are abnormal crescent shaped BLOOD cell?
Sickle cells. Sickle cell anemia is the disease characterized by sickle-shaped blood cells.
The What inherited disease in which red blood cells are sickle shaped instead of disc shaped is called?
Sickle-cell anemia.
What is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood in which an individuals red blood cells are sickle shaped rather than disked - shaped?
Sickle-cell anemia
What is a inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood in which an individual's red blood cells are sickle-shaped rather than disk-shaped?
C. Sickle-cell anemia
What is the compared shape of a red blood cell to that of a sickle cell?
The red blood cells have a sickle shape, hence the name. They receive this shape from a protein in normal blood cells that is mutated. They carry less blood and block veins and capillaries easily.
Do crescent shaped blood cells give you cancer?
crescent shaped blood cells are from sickle cell anemia
What genetic disorder results in abnormally shaped blood?
Spherocytosis
What is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood where an individuals red blood cells are sickle shaped rather than disk shaped?
C. Sickle-cell anemia
What are the ailments of the blood vesseles?
what are the ailments of the blood vessels
How is the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood reduced by sickle-cell anaemia?
This occurs because a genetic mutation changes the shape of the red blood Cell from a normally flat disk to a curved or sickle shaped disk. This altered shape ends up restricting and reducing the normal passage - flow - of RBC's through the Capillaries.
What genetic disorders results in abnormally shaped blood cells?
Spherocytosis
