See Also: sickle cell anaemia(medicine)
anaemia, sickle cell(medicine)
sickle-cell anaemia(dictionary)
sickle cell anaemia- bone manifestations(medicine)
Sickle cell(medicine)
sickle-cell(dictionary)
sickle cell prep(medicine)
sickle cell retinopathy(medicine)
sickle cell trait(medicine)
sickle cell haemoglobin(medicine)

leontiasis (iou) and sickle-cell anaemia (oh)


leontiasis (iou)



leontiasis noun. . M18.
[mod. Latin from Greek, from leont-, leon LION: see -IASIS.]
Medicine. Orig., a supposedly lion-like appearance of the face due to lepromatous leprosy. Now, a similar condition (more fully leontiasis ossea ) arising from Paget's disease (of the facial bones).

sickle-cell anaemia (oh)



BrE sickle-cell anemia AmE n [U]
a serious illness that mainly affects black people, in which the blood cells change shape, causing weakness and fever