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  2. James B. Herrick - Wikipedia

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    James B. Herrick. James Bryan Herrick (11 August 1861 in Oak Park, Illinois – 7 March 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American physician and professor of medicine who practiced and taught in Chicago. He is credited with the description of sickle-cell disease and was one of the first physicians to describe the symptoms of myocardial infarction .

  3. Splenic sequestration crisis - Wikipedia

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    Splenic sequestration crisis is a life-threatening illness common in pediatric patients with homozygous sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. Up to 30% of these children may develop splenic sequestration crisis with a mortality rate of up to 15%. This crisis occurs when splenic vaso-occlusion causes a large percentage of total blood volume ...

  4. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency - Wikipedia

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    It is an X-linked recessive disorder that results in defective glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase enzyme. [1] Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is an enzyme which protects red blood cells, which carry oxygen from the lungs to tissues throughout the body. A defect of the enzyme results in the premature breakdown of red blood cells.

  5. Silent Storm - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single player. Silent Storm [a] is a 2003 turn-based tactics video game developed by Nival Interactive and published by JoWood. The game is set in a fictionalized World War II Europe with science fiction elements. An advanced game engine, the Silent Storm engine, was developed for the game and reused in several later titles.

  6. Hammer & Sickle - Wikipedia

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    Hammer & Sickle (Russian: Серп и Молот) is a tactical role-playing game for the PC, co-developed by the Russia-based companies Novik&Co and Nival Interactive and published by CDV in 2005. The game is set in the same universe (and runs on the same game engine ) as Silent Storm , an earlier product by the same company.

  7. Photophobia - Wikipedia

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    Photophobia is a medical symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light. As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes, though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light, such as heliophobia.

  8. SYCL - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .khronos .org /sycl / sycl .tech. SYCL (pronounced "sickle") is a higher-level programming model to improve programming productivity on various hardware accelerators. It is a single-source embedded domain-specific language ( eDSL) based on pure C++17. It is a standard developed by Khronos Group, announced in March 2014.

  9. Cell (biology) - Wikipedia

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    686465. Anatomical terminology. [ edit on Wikidata] The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life. Every cell consists of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane; many cells contain organelles, each with a specific function. The term comes from the Latin word cellula meaning 'small room'.