sickle cell trait (English, noun)
expansion: sickle cell trait (uncountable)
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topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A genotype, and the carrier state constituted by it, that is the heterozygous counterpart to sickle-cell disease (which involves a homozygous hit). It is not classified as a disease entity because it usually has little clinical effect (generally asymptomatic).
tags: uncountable
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