Crescent.
Sickle Cell Anemia is named after the crescent or sickle-shaped red blood cells that form in individuals with the condition. These abnormally shaped cells can cause blockages in blood vessels, leading to pain, organ damage, and other complications characteristic of the disease.
Sickle-cell anemia.
Spherocytosis
The word is falcate. It means curved like a sickle.
Sickle-cell anemia
C. Sickle-cell anemia
C. Sickle-cell anemia
Sickle cell is common in people from tropical areas where malaria is prevalent. Malaria can not survive on blood cells that are sickle shaped, so when populations were being killed off by malaria, those with sickle cell were surviving and passing on the sickle cell gene.
Abnormal crescent-shaped blood cells are known as sickle cells, which are characteristic of sickle cell disease. This genetic condition causes red blood cells to become rigid and curved, leading to blockages in blood vessels and reduced oxygen delivery to tissues. Sickle cell disease can result in pain, organ damage, and other serious complications.
Yes, sickle cell anemia is a type of poikilocytosis, which is a condition characterized by the presence of abnormally shaped red blood cells in the bloodstream. In sickle cell anemia, the red blood cells are crescent or sickle-shaped due to a genetic mutation in the hemoglobin protein.
Spherocytosis
No, crescent-shaped blood cells are a characteristic of sickle cell disease, not cancer. Sickle cells can cause various complications by blocking blood flow and oxygen delivery to tissues, but they do not directly cause cancer.