Sickle
51sickle-cell anemia — noun a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape • Syn: ↑sickle cell anaemia, ↑sickle cell disease, ↑crescent cell anemia, ↑crescent cell anaemia, ↑drepanocytic anemia,… …
52sickle-cell disease — noun A disease characterized by sickle shaped red blood cells. Syn: sickle cell anaemia, sickle cell anaemia, sickle cell anemia …
53sickle lucerne — noun European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle shaped pods • Syn: ↑sickle alfalfa, ↑sickle medick, ↑Medicago falcata • Hypernyms: ↑medic, ↑medick, ↑trefoil * * * noun …
54sickle medick — noun European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle shaped pods • Syn: ↑sickle alfalfa, ↑sickle lucerne, ↑Medicago falcata • Hypernyms: ↑medic, ↑medick, ↑trefoil * * * noun …
55sickle-cell trait — noun : an inherited blood condition in which some red blood cells tend to sickle but usually not enough to produce anemia, which occurs primarily in individuals of Negro ancestry, and which is held to result from heterozygosity for a semidominant …
56sickle cell–thalassemia disease — any of several hereditary anemias involving simultaneous heterozygosity for hemoglobin S and a thalassemia gene; symptoms resemble those of sickle cell anemia. Called also microdrepanocytosis, microdrepanocytic d., hemoglobin S–thalassemia,… …
57sickle-billed — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : having a bill curved like a sickle * * * sickle bill(ed see sickle n. 3 b, 4 …
58sickle-cell anemia — noun Date: 1922 a chronic inherited anemia that occurs primarily in individuals of African, Mediterranean, or southwest Asian ancestry who are homozygous for the gene controlling hemoglobin S and that is characterized especially by episodic… …
59Sickle tail — The sickle tail is the single phenotypic characteristic that seems to separate dogs from wolves. Dogs who have tails tend to have an upward curve in the tail, which is called the sickle tail. Wolves tails, on the other hand, hang straight; this… …
60Sickle-winged Nightjar — Taxobox name = Sickle winged Nightjar status = NT | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Caprimulgiformes familia = Caprimulgidae genus = Eleothreptus species = E. anomalus binomial = Eleothreptus… …
