sickle

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You can resist malaria, but you'll get sickle cell disease.

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an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle

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noun

an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sickle.

noun

an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle

Example sentences

You can resist malaria, but you'll get sickle cell disease.

Nobody is going "damn, that cotton gin forced out all those sickle makers, they really hurt society".

I picture an ad with thin, sad people in fur hats, waiting in a long line for their car, with hammer-and-sickle ration coupons in their hands.

Or, to absolutely, definitely make sure that I don't end up doing things like spying on my neighbours or dropping bombs on innocent people overseas, I could get a hammer and sickle.

Heterozygous HbgS makes you resistant to malaria, homozygous HbgS gives you sickle cell anemia.

They are told through attack ads during elections, through cable news, and through the water cooler, that blood-thirsty communists are alive and well and have a donkey replacing their hammer/sickle emblem.

However, the color of a person's skin does not contribute to the sickle-cell anemia pathology in any way, it is merely correlated to the presence of sickle-cell trait.

The gene for sickle cell anemia wasn't designed to kill people and doesn't care that it does: it just causes chemical reactions which have a tendency, on average, to create more copies of itself in an efficient fashion.

For example, sickle-cell anemia is highly adaptive in sub-Saharan Africa where it confers immunity to malaria, yet results in debilitating blood clots when expressed in some individuals.