crescent

Examples of crescent in the following topics:

• Transport of Oxygen in the Blood

  • In sickle cell anemia, the shape of the red blood cell is crescent-shaped, elongated, and stiffened, reducing its ability to deliver oxygen .
  • Individuals with sickle cell anemia have crescent-shaped red blood cells.

• Glomerular Diseases

  • Micrograph of a crescentic glomerulonephritis that was shown to be anti-glomerular basement membrane disease.

• Morphologically Unusual Proteobacteria

  • The second word of its name (crescentus) refers to the fact that it forms a crescent shape; crescentin is a protein that imparts this shape.

• Nails

  • The edge of the germinal matrix is seen as a white, crescent shaped structure called the lunula.

• Protein Structure

  • These dysfunctional hemoglobin proteins, under low-oxygen conditions, start associating with one another, forming long fibers made from millions of aggregated hemoglobins that distort the red blood cells into crescent or "sickle" shapes, which clog arteries .

• Caulobacter Differentiation

  • Its name is due to the fact that it forms a crescent shape; crescentin is a protein that imparts this shape .

• The Agricultural Market Landscape

  • This evolved in the Fertile Crescent region into the domestication of animals (i.e. cattle, sheep, goats, pigs), growing of wheat and barley in Jordan Valley and the growth of cereal in Syria (all still about 10,000 years ago).

• Meninges

  • Tentorium cerebelli, the second largest, crescent-shaped; separates the occipital lobes from cerebellum.

• River Valley Civilizations

  • The most notable examples are the Ancient Egyptians, who were based on the Nile, the Mesopotamians in the Fertile Crescent on the Tigris/Euphrates rivers, the Ancient Chinese on the Yellow River, and the Ancient India on the Indus.

• The Phoenicians

  • Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent near modern-day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria.