stickling
Example Sentences
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Hydroxyurea helps keep red blood cells from sickling, or deforming into a sickle shape, by increasing levels of a type of fetal hemoglobin that is switched off after birth.
From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023
And, like Ted Agu, at least some of them, probably far more than we know, are dying of what the medical literature has called "exertional sickling," or ES.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2021
Still, at the criminal trial, Dr. Wetli testified that “the cause of death was exertional sickling due to sickle cell trait.”
From New York Times • May 15, 2021
In sickle cell disease it replaces some of the flawed adult sickling hemoglobin, and also blocks any remaining from forming sticky polymers.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2020
Unable to glide smoothly through capillaries and veins, sickled red cells jammed into microscopic clots throughout the body, interrupting blood flow and precipitating the excruciating pain of a sickling crisis.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
