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Bookmark or Share- About Sickle Cell Disease | Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) | CDCSickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited blood disorders. Abnormal hemoglobin is produced. Red blood cells become hard and sticky and get stuck in small blood vessels, resulting in pain and other serious complications. There are several types of SCD, some more severe than others.
- Quick Facts:Sickle Cell Disease - Merck Manual Consumer VersionSickle cell disease is a lifelong problem with your red blood cells. It's something you’re born with that causes some of your red blood cells to be unusually shaped. Instead of being shaped like disks, they're shaped like sickles (crescents).
- Sickle | Harvesting, Agriculture, Reaping | BritannicaSickle, one of the most ancient of harvesting tools, consisting of a metal blade, usually curved, attached to a short wooden handle. The short handle forces the user to harvest in a stooped or squatting position. The longer-handled scythe, the user of which remains upright, evolved from the sickle.
- Sickle Cell Disease - What Is Sickle Cell Disease? - NHLBI, NIHSickle cell disease — also called sickle cell anemia — is a group of inherited disorders that affect hemoglobin , the major protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells. Normally, red blood cells are disc-shaped and flexible so they can move easily through the blood vessels.
- Sickle - WikipediaA sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock.
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