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Examples of sickle cell in a Sentence
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His cause of death was listed as natural due to a sickle cell crisis, which his family and several experts told the Star-Telegram was impossible.
—Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 May 2024
Meanwhile, cells fixed by gene therapy can slow, even stop, the progression of intractable diseases like sickle cell or beta thalassemia — for the extraordinary price of $2.1 million to $4.25 million each.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
An estimated 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell, most of them Black.
—Gina Kolata Kenny Holston, New York Times, 6 May 2024
The agency approved a therapy for sickle cell disease that involves editing patients’ cells in a lab and reinfusing them to essentially cure them of their condition.
—Peter Marks, TIME, 2 May 2024
People with sickle cell anemia are often plagued by infections if left untreated.
—Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
The procedure is costly, invasive, and out of reach for most of the 20 million people with sickle cell disease around the world.
—TIME, 2 May 2024
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
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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 28 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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