noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hammer and sickle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cell
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A clear example of a mutation altering development is the inherited genetic defect, sickle cell anaemia.
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Diagnosis of the clinically severe forms of sickle cell disease is not difficult, providing awareness of the disease is high.
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In Britain one in ten black people carry the sickle cell gene.
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Diagnostic features of different types of sickle cell disease.
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Around 300 children with sickle cell disease are registered at King's College Hospital.
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The most effective way of organising specialist care is through sickle cell centres, which can offer both clinical and psychological support.
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Chronic and acute problems associated with sickle cell anaemia.
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The role of the staff at sickle cell centres is highly varied, but is summarised in Table 4.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Diagnosis of the clinically severe forms of sickle cell disease is not difficult, providing awareness of the disease is high.
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His beard was mushroom-colored, his eyes were pale as dew, and he carried a rusty sickle .
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In Britain one in ten black people carry the sickle cell gene.
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In the dim light of the December moon, a silver sickle , the landscape was bare no trees, no snow.
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Notburga simply threw her sickle in the air, where it stayed until her boss gave in.
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She would then face him and, saying her own sickle needed sharpening, neatly slice off his head.
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The economy was mixed with remains of wheat, grinding stones and iron sickles indicating agriculture alongside the remains of domestic animals.
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The twilight sky was lavender and dark enough that Venus was out, hung above a freshly minted sickle moon.