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Sicill-i Osmani
Sicill-i Osmani (صجیل عثمانی), also titled Tezkire-i Meshahir-i Osmaniyye, is a biographical dictionary of Ottoman notables compiled by Mehmed Sureyya, published in Istanbul in four volumes from 1890 to 1893.
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia), the largest Mediterranean island at 25,426 km² with about five million people, an autonomous Italian region home to Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, seven UNESCO World Heritage sites, and a layered Greek, Arab, Byzantine, and Norman history.
Sicily Express
Sicily Express (Sicilia Express) is a 2025 five-episode Netflix holiday comedy written, directed, and starring Ficarra & Picone as two Sicilian nurses in Milan who find a dumpster portal home to Sicily before Christmas.
Sicista
Sicista (birch mice) is the sole living genus of the rodent family Sicistidae (Sminthidae), a Palearctic dipodoid with 13–17 species in five lineages, radiating 6.0–4.7 Mya.
Sick (2022 film)
Sick (2022) is a Peacock Original slasher film directed by John Hyams, written by Kevin Williamson and Katelyn Crabb, starring Gideon Adlon and Bethlehem Million as friends stalked at a lake house during COVID-19 quarantine; 83 minutes, 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sick AG
SICK AG is a German manufacturer of sensors for factory and logistics automation, founded by Erwin Sick in 1946 and headquartered in Waldkirch near Freiburg, known for safety light curtains and LiDAR sensors.
Sick building syndrome
Sick building syndrome (SBS), now called non-specific building-related symptoms, is nonspecific occupant symptoms (headache, fatigue, mucosal irritation) tied to time in a building with no identifiable cause; WHO described it in 1982 and 1984.
Sick Individuals
Sick Individuals are a Dutch EDM and progressive house DJ duo of Ray Hofstee and Jim Smeele, known for 2013 Beatport chart-toppers with Axwell and Dannic.
Sick leave
Sick leave, also known as paid sick leave or sickness pay, is time away from work due to illness or injury, often job-protected and partly paid.
Sick man of Europe
Sick man of Europe: political epithet for an economy or state in decline, first applied to the Ottoman Empire after Tsar Nicholas I's 1853 'sick man' remark, later to 1970s Britain, Italy, the EU, France, and Germany (1999 and 2023).
Sick New World
Sick New World is a one-day heavy music festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, debuted 2023, focused on nu metal, alternative, industrial and goth acts; a Texas edition launches October 2026.
Sick Note (TV series)
Sick Note is a British dark-comedy sitcom on Sky One, 2017–2018, 14 episodes in 2 series, created by Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz. It stars Rupert Grint as Daniel Glass, who keeps a fake esophageal cancer diagnosis after Dr Ian Glennis (Nick Frost) misdiagnoses him; Don Johnson and Lindsay Lohan join series 1 and 2.
Sick Puppies
Sick Puppies, Australian hard rock band formed in Sydney in 1997 by Shimon Moore and Emma Anzai; broke out with "All the Same" and the 2006 Free Hugs video; albums include Tri-Polar (Gold) and Wave the Bull (2025).
SICK TiM series
The SICK TiM series is a family of compact 2D LiDAR sensors made by SICK AG of Waldkirch, Germany, scanning up to 270° and 25 m at 15 Hz for robotics.
Sick-euthyroid syndrome
Sick-euthyroid syndrome, or non-thyroidal illness syndrome (NTIS), low T3 syndrome: abnormal thyroid function tests (low T3, high rT3, variable TSH) in severe non-thyroidal illness; reversible, not treated with thyroid hormone.
Sickday
Sickday (SICKDAY) names a Wellfleet, Massachusetts surf and skate shop founded by Olaf Valli in April 2005, and Sickday, LLC, a New York City medical house-call service operating since 2007; also a Line ski line and a band.
Sickle
A sickle, also known as a reaping-hook or grasshook, is a curved one-handed harvesting tool used to cut cereal crops and grass, and one of the oldest agricultural implements known.
Sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD), also called sickle cell anemia, is a group of inherited hemoglobin disorders causing sickle-shaped red cells, pain crises, and stroke; treated with hydroxyurea, transfusions, and CRISPR gene therapies Casgevy and Lyfgenia.
Sickle cell disease with crisis
Sickle cell disease with crisis, ICD-11 code 3A51.2, covers sickle cell disease during a vaso-occlusive pain crisis: blocked blood flow causing severe pain, triggered by illness, dehydration, or altitude, treated with rapid analgesia.
Sickle cell disease without crisis
Sickle cell disease without crisis (ICD-10-CM D57.1; ICD-11 3A51.1) is the classification code for the chronic, stable state of sickle cell disease with no acute crisis; crisis codes D57.0x apply once a crisis occurs.
Sickle cell trait
Sickle cell trait (SCT, HbAS) is the carrier state of one sickle hemoglobin gene and one normal gene; usually symptomless, transmissible to children, rare risks under extreme exertion, dehydration, or low oxygen.
Sickle cell-beta-thalassemia disease
Sickle cell-beta-thalassemia disease (HbS/β-thalassemia), also called sickle beta-thalassemia, is an inherited sickle cell disease from one HbS gene plus one beta-thalassemia gene; the β0 form resembles HbSS sickle cell anemia, the β+ form is milder.
Sickmode
Sickmode is the stage name of Aleandro Bollino, an Italian raw hardstyle producer and DJ who co-owns Aggressive Records and reached the Defqon.1 RED mainstage in 2025.
Sickness Impact Profile
The Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) is a self-administered questionnaire measuring how sickness changes everyday behavior, with 136 yes/no items in 12 categories, scored 0% to 100% dysfunction.
Sicko
Sicko is a 2007 American documentary film written, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore, examining harms from private health insurance and contrasting US care with Canada, Britain, France, and Cuba.
Sicko Mode
SICKO MODE, Travis Scott's 2018 three-part hit from Astroworld with Drake, Swae Lee, and Big Hawk samples, built by Hit-Boy, OZ, Cubeatz, Tay Keith, and Chahayed; his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 and a Diamond single.
Sickofancy
Sickofancy is the third episode of South Park season 27, aired August 20, 2025. Also known by working title Toxic Positivity, it satirizes sycophancy toward Trump, tech CEOs, ChatGPT, and the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., ending Randy's Tegridy Farms era.
Sickos
Sickos, or Sickos Haha Yes, is an internet meme of a bearded man in a black "Sickos" shirt laughing through a window, drawn by Ward Sutton as Onion cartoonist Stan Kelly, from the 2015 comic Painful Procedural, used for schadenfreude and sports fandom.
SiCOH low-k dielectric
SiCOH low-k dielectric, also called carbon-doped oxide (CDO) or SiOCH, is an insulator used in integrated circuit wiring to cut interconnect delay, with k values from 3.0 down to 2.2.
Siconos
Siconos is an open-source scientific software package, developed by Inria in Grenoble, France, for modeling and simulating nonsmooth dynamical systems such as contact, friction, and impact problems.