The ship designs, in particular, were regarded by Heyerdahl as similar and drawn with a simple sickle – shaped lines, representing the base of the boat, with vertical lines on deck, illustrating crew or, perhaps, raised oars.

These sickle shaped red cells are less deformable and viscoelastic meaning that they have become rigid and can cause blood vessel blockage, pain, strokes, and other tissue damage.

The dorsal fin is sickle shaped.

Unlike brown and black bears, sloth bears have lankier builds, long shaggy coats that form a mane around the face, long sickle shaped claws, and a specially adapted lower lip and palate used for sucking insects.

The paws are disproportionately large, and have highly developed, sickle shaped blunt claws which measure 4 inches in length.

Phillip Manning and colleagues ( 2009 ) attempted to test the function of the sickle claw and similarly shaped claws on the forelimbs.

Crudely shaped bayonet and sickle combo, his design was widely accepted by the U. S. military during the period of the American Civil War.

As the Foolkiller begins to eliminate Cheese's enforcers, the Cheese calls in a diminutive assassin known as Sickle Moon due to the sickle shaped blade he employs.

They develop falciform ( sickle shaped ) heads after meiosis and before spermiation ( release during ejaculation ).

In sickle cell hemoglobin ( HbS ) glutamic acid in position 6 ( in beta chain ) is mutated to valine.

It is recognisable by its thickly furred double coat, sickle tail, erect triangular ears, and distinctive markings.

The tail should be expressive, held low when the dog is relaxed, and curved upward in a " sickle " shape when excited or interested in something.

In the " Fighting Dinosaurs " specimen, the Velociraptor lies on its side, to the right of the Protoceratops, with one of its sickle claws apparently embedded in the throat of its prey, while the beak of Protoceratops is clamped down upon the right forelimb of its attacker.

In shape it is like the sickle ( drepanē, δρεπάνι ), to which it was compared by the ancients: the concave side, with the city and harbour of Corfu in the centre, lies toward the Albanian coast.

A falchion (; Old French: fauchon ; Latin: falx, " sickle ") is a one-handed, single-edged sword of European origin, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.

Eryptosis is increased in a wide variety of diseases including sepsis, haemolytic uremic syndrome, malaria, sickle cell anemia, beta-thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, phosphate depletion, iron deficiency and Wilson's disease.

Coins minted at Cnossus from the fifth century showed the kneeling bull or the head of a goddess crowned with a wreath of grain and on the reverse — the " underside "— a scheme of four meander patterns joined at the centre windmill fashion, sometimes with sickle moons or with a star-rosette at the center: " it is a small view of the nocturnal world on the face of the coin that lay downward in the printing process, and is, as it were, oriented downward ".

In sickle cell patients with priapism, the first step in management is a blood exchange transfusion, not a surgical intervention.

The sickle from the Key of Solomon. According to the Kitchen Witchcraft philosophy, the use of magical tools for mundane purposes like cooking is actively encouraged, and as such there is little or no need for a boline as a separate tool from the athame.

This crescent shape is reminiscent of the sickle described in the Key of Solomon, a medieval grimoire which is one of the sources for modern Wicca .. Confusingly, an Italian version of the Key of Solomon has a hook-shaped knife called an artauo ( a possible root for athame ) and a straight, needle-shaped blade called a bolino.

# Distance of the vertical axis of star, hammer and sickle from the flagstaff is ⅓ of the flag height.

The difference is that the hammer and sickle has been removed from the flag.

The Latin term for falcon, falco, is related to falx, the Latin word meaning sickle, in reference to the silhouette of the falcon's long, pointed wings in flight.

On the outside, it is decorated with sculptures of soldiers, workers and aviators, while inside walls and ceilings feature wreaths, bay leaves and stars, and until early 1990s, the Soviet hammer and sickle, typical decor for Soviet public buildings of early post-war years.

Associated with the tower is a high statue consisting of three figures — one with a hammer, one with a sickle and one with a writing brush ( an idealised worker, a peasant and a " working intellectual ", similar to the Russian Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue.

In the flash of a wink from Leonie that tells him he is the child's father, Morgan's eyes and smile light up his sedated face with a malicious twinkle before he returns to tending a flowerbed as the camera pulls out to a longshot of the entire circular flowerbed -- with the enclosed flowers arranged into a hammer and sickle.

The ESR is increased in pregnancy, inflammation, anemia or rheumatoid arthritis, and decreased in polycythemia, sickle cell anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, and congestive heart failure.

If the prey is too large to swallow whole, it will be ripped into smaller pieces with a sickle claw by holding the prey in the beak and tearing it apart with the claw.

A flag featuring a yellow hammer and sickle on a red field is flown commonly throughout Laos, often side-by-side with the Laotian flag.

It has been used to treat genetic disorders such as severe combined immunodeficiency, and treatments are being developed for a range of other currently incurable diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy.

This suggests Velociraptor may have used its sickle claw to pierce vital organs of the throat, such as the trachea ( windpipe ), or one or more of the branches of the jugular vein or carotid artery, rather than slashing the abdomen.

The producers of the program created an artificial Velociraptor leg with a sickle claw and used a pork belly to simulate the dinosaur's prey.

Apollonius named the island Drepane, Greek for " sickle ", since it was thought to hide the sickle that Cronus used to castrate his father Uranus, from whose blood the Phaeacians were descended.

The chain and sickle ( kusarigama ) was also used by the ninja.

The weight was swung to injure or disable an opponent, and the sickle used to kill at close range.

In addition to Tay – Sachs disease, preimplantation genetic diagnosis has been used to prevent cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia among other genetic disorders.

An adamantine sickle or sword was also used by the hero Perseus to decapitate the Gorgon Medusa while she slept.

In The Book of Ceremonial Magic published by Arthur Edward Waite in 1911, Waite references a number of early works on magic which mention the bolline or sickle, saying " Among the necessary properties mentioned by the Book of True Black Magic are the sword, the staff, the rod, the lancet, the arctrave or hook, the bolline or sickle, the needle, the ponaird, a white-handled knife and another knife, with a black handle, used to describe the circle.

In 1975, McLaren designed red patent leather costumes for the New York Dolls and used a Soviet-style hammer and sickle motif for their stage show, as a provocative means of promoting them.

The hammer and sickle, though in use since 1917 / 18, were not the official symbol until 1922, before which the original hammer and plough insignia was used by the Red Army and the Red Guard on uniforms, medals, caps, etc.

The flag can also be used without the hammer and sickle in some circumstances, for example on Transnistrian-issued license plates.

Tools represented in other designs include: the brush, sickle, and hammer of the Workers ' Party of Korea ; the spade, flaming torch, and hoe used prior to 1984 by the British Labour Party ( which was a socialist and not a communist party ); the monkey wrench and tomahawk of the Earth First!

It is usually used in conjunction with the hammer and sickle, and appears on all of the CPB's publications.

Other studies have suggested that the sickle claws were not used to slash but rather to deliver small stabs to the victim.

In 2011, a study suggested that the sickle claw would likely had been used to pin down prey while biting it, rather than as a slashing weapon.

Ostrom suggested that the short metatarsus may be related to the function of the sickle claw, and used the fact that it appears to get shorter as individuals aged as support for this.

By 1746 John Tyzack was using it for grinding scythes, in 1797 Thomas Biggin was making knives for cutting hay and straw, and it was being used as a sickle mill in 1805.

It may also be referred to as blackspot shark ( usually used for C. sealei ), grey reef shark ( usually used for C. amblyrhynchos ), grey whaler shark, olive shark, reef shark, ridgeback shark, sickle shark, sickle silk shark, sickle-shaped shark, silk shark, and silky whaler.