(n.) One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical implications are discussed and the need for periodic assessment of auditory function in Nigeria sicklers for preventive management of auditory problems is emphasized.
(2) These data suggest a decrease or lack of intravascular volume expansion and evidence of uteroplacental insufficiency in sicklers.
(3) The above findings are discussed in relation to the other complications of sickler cell disease in other organs of the body.
(4) We also found plasma fibrinogen concentration in sicklers to be about twice as high as that of normals.
(5) The probable explanations were the high prevalence of fetal haemoglobin in Arab sicklers, the rarity of sickle cell disease among the Arabs and the possible existence of a different gene.
(6) High rouleaux formation in sicklers could be attributed not only to fibrinogen and other plasma factors but also to cellular factors.
(7) Non-sicklers of similar ages and with similar temperatures were also studied as controls.
(8) The significance of these results are discussed and the need for establishing the sensitivity of the infecting organism in every case and for early surgical exploration in non-sicklers are stressed.
(9) The extent of tissue damage caused by vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease in those organs rich in acid phosphatase was assessed by measuring serum acid phosphatase in 33 patients with homozygous sickle cell disease Hb-SS (sicklers) and comparing the result with that of 31 persons with normal haemoglobin-AA (non-sicklers) matched for age and sex.
(10) Blood was collected from HbSS-confirmed sicklers (80 males and 75 females, age 2-26 and 1-27 years, respectively) who attended our clinics.
(11) Eighty three of the subjects were sickle-cell anaemia patients (sicklers) with haemoglobin genotype HbSS, and in the steady state; 30 were subjects who had the sickle-cell trait (HbAS), and 55 were subjects with the normal haemoglobin genotype HbAA.
(12) However, a national collaborative randomized study is needed to adequately address the controversy regarding the use of red cell exchange in the pregnant sickler.
(13) The result showed a decrease in the level of total, labile and tartrate-resistant serum acid phosphatase in sicklers compared to non-sicklers, though the decrease is not statistically significant (p greater than 0.1).
(14) The erythrocyte sialic acid concentration was significantly (P less than 0.001) higher in sickle-cell patients than in non-sicklers and although the concentration was higher in AS than AA individuals the difference was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
(15) In view of the aesthetic and medical implications of these abnormalities, it is recommended that sicklers should receive regular dental check-up with a view to ameliorating or preventing these complications by prophylactic measures including the use of orthodontic appliances such as braces, etc.
(16) From a sample of 1,079 male adult Zairians living in regions where falciparum malaria is endemic 212 sicklers and 867 nonsicklers were compared for eight anthropometric variables.
(17) The levels of ELT and FDP were significantly higher in sicklers in steady state than non-sicklers, but significantly lowered in sicklers in crisis than both non-sicklers and sicklers in stable state.
(18) By using a non-invasive Doppler technique, vessel compliance (C) was measured in the aorta, iliac and leg arterial segments of 25 juvenile and adult-onset diabetics of recent diagnosis and also in seven sickle-cell subjects (sicklers) whose conditions were known to have reached crisis state.
(19) The results were compared between those subjects who encountered more frequent vaso-occlusive crisis episodes (frequent sicklers) and those with fewer crisis episodes (infrequent sicklers), along with parameters between crisis and non-crisis states of frequent sicklers.
(20) The sicklers and non-sicklers (control group) did not show any significant differences in the pattern of tympanograms, static middle ear compliance and mean acoustic reflex thresholds, suggesting essentially normal middle ear mechanisms in both groups.
Stickler
Definition:
(v. t.) One who stickles.
(v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
(v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schwartz was a stickler for historical detail, which, combined with Friedman's vision of a unifying structure for tracing the effects of monetary developments on the economy, led to an entertaining work that changed our view of how the macroeconomy worked.
(2) These findings suggest that, at least in some families, the mutation causing Stickler syndrome affects the structural locus for type II collagen.
(3) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)
(4) The ocular histopathologic findings in three patients with the Stickler syndrome from two families included the following: total retinal detachment with marked folding, disorganization of the retina, and a preretinal membrane.
(5) The phone-hacking trial has thrown up many nibblettes of celebrity ephemera, but perhaps the most extraordinary latest reveal is that Her Majesty is a stickler for her snacks .
(6) The total LOD score for linkage of the Stickler syndrome and COL2A1 at a recombination fraction (theta) of zero is 3.59.
(7) A three generation family with Stickler syndrome is reported.
(8) The Stickler syndrome is an autosomal dominant hereditary disorder of connective tissue with pleiotropic features including premature osteoarthropathy, mild spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, vitreoretinal degeneration, and the Pierre-Robin sequence.
(9) They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience.
(10) Our experience suggests that the Stickler syndrome is not rare.
(11) Because of the growing list of complications associated with mitral-valve prolapse, all patients with Stickler syndrome should be evaluated by auscultation, electrocardiogram, and echocardiography.
(12) That the Chinese, normally sticklers for protocol, agreed showed Xi was more open than his predecessors, Ruan Zongze, a vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies, a thinktank linked to the Chinese foreign ministry, told Reuters.
(13) Stickler's syndrome is a congenital disease of connective tissue with considerable ocular and non-ocular lesions.
(14) My mother is a stickler for tidiness and that has come in handy.
(15) Stickler syndrome may be underrecognized by rheumatologists, particularly if the significance of nonarticular clinical features or a positive family history are not appreciated.
(16) A family is described illustrating diverse expressions of Stickler syndrome, including abnormalities not directly attributable to mutation of the type II procollagen gene.
(17) BBC staffers not already familiar with their new boss may also like to know that he is a stickler for punctuality.
(18) Hereditary Arthro-ophthalmopathy (The Stickler Syndrome) is a relatively common dominantly inherited disorder of connective tissue.
(19) The once scruffy youth became a stickler for sartorial decorum.