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Examples of sickle cell in a Sentence
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In a blood desert, what are normally highly treatable conditions — trauma, sickle cell anemia or postpartum bleeding — often become deadly.
—Simar Bajaj, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
One of her children has sickle cell anemia and another eats through a feeding tube, family said.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2024
Avery said after the death of her own son in late January from sickle cell complications, this is an extremely difficult time for their family.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
By allowing scientists to alter specific parts of the human genome, CRISPR opens up a way to correct or work around diseases with genetic components like sickle cell or beta thalassemia.
—Robert Hart, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
From Megan: New gene therapies confront many sickle cell patients with an impossible choice: a cure or fertility.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
Bluebird’s off to a slow start More than three months after Bluebird Bio’s gene therapy for sickle cell disease won FDA approval, not one patient has received treatment, the company said yesterday.
—Damian Garde, STAT, 27 Mar. 2024
With clinical trials now underway at Beam for patients with sickle cell disease and a rare liver disease known as alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, Gaudelli hopes to embark on a new journey from the bench to the bedside.
—Katie Jennings, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
This situation is reminiscent of the evolutionary narrative surrounding genetic mutations like sickle cell disease and MS.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1923, in the meaning defined above
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“Sickle cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sickle%20cell. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
sickle cell
noun
: an abnormal red blood cell that is crescent-shaped
Medical Definition
sickle cell
noun1
: an abnormal rigid, sticky red blood cell of crescent shape
2
: a condition characterized by sickle cells : sickle cell anemia, sickle-cell trait
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