ˈsickled, ppl. a.
[f. sickle n.]
1. a. Provided with a sickle. b. Cut by means of a sickle.
| 1730–46 Thomson Autumn 1321 When Autumn's yellow lustre..tempts the sickled swain into the field. 1765 Museum Rust. IV. 359 They..can house their mown corn as early as they could house sickled corn. |
2. Path. [or f. sickle v.2] Of a red blood cell: sickle-shaped.
| 1923 Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. XXXIV. 339/1 All the cells in the preparation kept in the dark had reversed within two days, whereas the controls remained sickled for a period of three days to one month. 1949 Science 25 Nov. 543/1 Under sufficiently low oxygen pressure..all the cells of both types assume the sickled form. 1971 New Scientist 24 June 762/1 The sickled cells tend to clog the circulation and to break up before they reach the life span of normal red cells. |