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Thalassemia Essays and Term Papers
ThalassemiaAn Overview of Hemoglobin
This brief overview of hemoglobin is not meant to be comprehensive. The goal is to provide sufficient background to make this Web site useful to people unfamiliar with the area. More detailed sources are listed at the end of this file.
A.) What is ...
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Sickle Cell AnemiaSickles Cell Anemia in Children (10 pgs)
In 1904 a hospital intern at The Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago Illinois, Dr. Earnest Irons, who was the first physician to describe sickle cells, wrote a report on Walter Clement Noel’s blood.
Also in 1904, Dr. James B. Herrick, a Chicago Physician, ...
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What Is Sickle Cell DiseaseSickle Cell Anemia
By Alliyah Gunter, Grade 11
Chemistry period D
What is Sickle Cell Disease?
Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells. People with sickle cell disease have red blood cells that contain mostly hemoglobin* S, an abnormal type of ...
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Sickle Cell Diseaseis an inherited blood disease which can cause pain, damage to vital organs, and in some cases, death in childhood or early adulthood. This disease affects a protein inside the red blood cells called hemoglobin. It occurs wherein a person inherits two sickle cell genes or a combination of one ...
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Sickle Cell AnemiaSickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disease. The word anemia is defined as meaning that the blood does not have the required number of red blood cells. These cells take on a crescent shape, which is where the disease takes its name from the abnormal sickle shapes of the ...
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