(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.
Tickler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tickles.
(n.) Something puzzling or difficult.
(n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
(n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a system using an addressograph card and tickler file to facilitate the lending and returning of radiographic jackets, which brings into accountability both the borrower and the lender.
(2) This study investigates the influence of a microcomputer tickler system on the ordering of mammograms.
(3) Use of "tickler files" or scanning of computerized records are considerably less common practices.
(4) The reversal of these contact-sex roles (female tickler vs. male cuddler) did not affect the developmental preference for less cuddling stimulation of the 3 oldest groups of girls; however, the youngest girls now avoided male cuddlers, while the boys were found to prefer male cuddlers at all 4 age levels.
(5) Many was the time I had felt the Tickler in her hand.
(6) Since then it's been a parade of leading chanteuses, from X Factor winner Leona Lewis to ivory-tickler Alicia Keys, with even some rockers entering the fray.
(7) This developmental decrease was most prevalent, for both boys and girls, when the contact agents were a female cuddler versus a male tickler.
(8) Then it was up and over, every man, to shake the hand of a foe as a friend, or slap his back like a brother would; exchanging gifts of biscuits, tea, Maconochie's stew, Tickler's jam … for cognac, sausages, cigars, beer, sauerkraut; or chase six hares, who jumped from a cabbage-patch, or find a ball and make of a battleground a football pitch.
(9) Unlike the Oscars, the Globes split their key categories in two – and the classification of Birdman as a rib-tickler rather than a mordant study of middle-aged failure may have helped catapult it to the frontrunner at this year’s awards, with seven nominations.
(10) He will have to do it (Clarkson's Australian accent is a rib-tickler) on Skype.