Assertion: thalassemia's blood cell | /r/HasProperty | small
Facets:
value: abnormally
type: DEGREE
value: particularly
type: DEGREE
value: unusually
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In 2008, a joint team from the New York University School of Medicine and the University of Oxford, working with children in Papua New Guinea who have alpha thalassemia, found that their red blood cells were unusually small and more abundant, resulting in a mild form of anemia, compared with red blood cells of children without the genetic mutation that leads to the thalassemia.9 They went on to show that the alpha thalassemia resulted in an advantage against malaria infection.
text: A person with thalassemia will have too few red blood cells and too little hemoglobin, and the red blood cells may be too small.
text: Not only do patients with thalassemia have less hemoglobin than normal, their red blood cells may be particularly small.
text: Based on his observations, Haldane theorized that “because the red blood cells were small in those with certain types of anemias, the malaria parasite had a harder time getting into and thriving inside these cells,” Dr. Williams explained.
text: Red blood cells (RBC) may be small and pale by microscope review
text: An individual with delta-beta thalassemia is usually asymptomatic, however microcytosis can occur where the red blood cells are abnormally small.