Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a sickle; falcate in form; falciform; drepaniform.
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- adjective curved like a sickle
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Examples
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I think fish with lunate tail fins (meaning crescent or sickle-shaped) such as tuna, various jacks, and marlin can exert more proportionately more force than those with broad tails such as bass or trout.
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New marrow produces healthy red blood cells to replace the sickle-shaped ones that can't squeeze through small blood vessels, the cause of the disease's pain, infections and life-threatening organ damage.
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I think fish with lunate tail fins (meaning crescent or sickle-shaped) such as tuna, various jacks, and marlin can exert more proportionately more force than those with broad tails such as bass or trout.
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The November 1910 issue of the medical journal Archives of International Medicine (Arch Intern Med 1910: VI (5): 517-521) published a report by Dr. James B. Herrick titled, "Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia."
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Sickle cell anemia creates sickle-shaped red blood cells, which block vessels, causing chronic problems with intense pain, life-threatening infections and organ damage.
Sickle cell testing of athletes stirs discrimination fears 2010
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Sickle cell anemia creates sickle-shaped red blood cells, which block vessels, causing chronic problems with intense pain, life-threatening infections and organ damage.
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Bodies are found blistered and burned and purposefully positioned to form two shapes: a five-pointed star and a sickle-shaped moon.
Mihir’s Anticipated 2010 Books Liviu 2010
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But during highly stressful physical exertion their blood cells can become sickle-shaped, preventing the delivery of oxygen to tissues and organs.
Sickle cell testing of athletes stirs discrimination fears 2010
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A large brown bird alighted at the end of the pier and wobbled over on spindly legs to check out the body bag, jabbing at the plastic with a sickle-shaped beak.
Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010
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But during highly stressful physical exertion their blood cells can become sickle-shaped, preventing the delivery of oxygen to tissues and organs.
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