Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with or bearing a sickle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with a sickle.
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- verb Past participle of
sickle - adjective Furnished or provided with a
sickle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've come to Clovertown by chance, by the sickled rind of a watermelon, minute by minute, & you have to believe me.
Clovertown Peter Kispert 2011
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This refers to painful and unwanted erections, which occur because sickled red blood cells cause blood to be trapped in the vessels of the penis.
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Moalem uses a few big examples to support the idea that some long-term diseases can provide short-term benefit -- hemochromatosis as a way or warding off bacterial infection, diabetes as a defense against frostbite, and thalassemia, sickled cells, and G6PD deficiency as protection from malaria.
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Moalem uses a few big examples to support the idea that some long-term diseases can provide short-term benefit -- hemochromatosis as a way or warding off bacterial infection, diabetes as a defense against frostbite, and thalassemia, sickled cells, and G6PD deficiency as protection from malaria.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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We do know that the distorted shape of sickled cells is recognized as abnormal by the spleen, and the cells are destroyed more quickly than usual, leading to anemia.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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We do know that the distorted shape of sickled cells is recognized as abnormal by the spleen, and the cells are destroyed more quickly than usual, leading to anemia.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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We do know that the distorted shape of sickled cells is recognized as abnormal by the spleen, and the cells are destroyed more quickly than usual, leading to anemia.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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We do know that the distorted shape of sickled cells is recognized as abnormal by the spleen, and the cells are destroyed more quickly than usual, leading to anemia.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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They stood beside their small anvils beating out the sickled knives, the spear and arrowheads, shaping the earrings and bracelets of gold for their tiny women.
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And around her was another ring of the golden pygmies, arrows at readiness, sickled knives in hand.
GHibbs commented on the word sickled
Of a blood cell that has changed from being round to the shape of a sickle. In sickle-cell disease red cells become sickled.
August 10, 2013