SICKLE


Meaning of SICKLE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

hammer and sickle

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cell

A clear example of a mutation altering development is the inherited genetic defect, sickle cell anaemia.

Diagnosis of the clinically severe forms of sickle cell disease is not difficult, providing awareness of the disease is high.

In Britain one in ten black people carry the sickle cell gene.

Diagnostic features of different types of sickle cell disease.

Around 300 children with sickle cell disease are registered at King's College Hospital.

The most effective way of organising specialist care is through sickle cell centres, which can offer both clinical and psychological support.

Chronic and acute problems associated with sickle cell anaemia.

The role of the staff at sickle cell centres is highly varied, but is summarised in Table 4.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Diagnosis of the clinically severe forms of sickle cell disease is not difficult, providing awareness of the disease is high.

His beard was mushroom-colored, his eyes were pale as dew, and he carried a rusty sickle .

In Britain one in ten black people carry the sickle cell gene.

In the dim light of the December moon, a silver sickle , the landscape was bare no trees, no snow.

Notburga simply threw her sickle in the air, where it stayed until her boss gave in.

She would then face him and, saying her own sickle needed sharpening, neatly slice off his head.

The economy was mixed with remains of wheat, grinding stones and iron sickles indicating agriculture alongside the remains of domestic animals.

The twilight sky was lavender and dark enough that Venus was out, hung above a freshly minted sickle moon.

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