sickle
Example Sentences
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People living with sickle cell disease have red blood cells that are crescent shaped due to a gene mutation.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
"The first gene editing drug approved for a blood disease -- sickle cell anemia -- targets a cell-type specific enhancer."
From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025
The biotech said a Phase 3 trial for mitapivat, a drug to treat sickle cell disease, had failed to meet several endpoints.
From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025
On opening day, Sept. 11, 1990, crowds of Muscovites gathered outside Pizza Hut waving tiny white flags—souvenirs decorated with the chain’s red roof logo, the Stars and Stripes, and the hammer and sickle.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2025
Unexplained vaginal bleeding and blood in urine during last two pregnancies; physician recommended sickle cell test.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
