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HARVARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university in Massachusetts
Synonyms:
Harvard; Harvard University
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)
Holonyms ("Harvard" is a part of...):
Cambridge (a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Holonyms ("Harvard" is a member of...):
Ivy League (a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige)
Sense 2
Meaning:
American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)
Synonyms:
Harvard; John Harvard
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)
Context examples:
Researchers from Harvard University recruited 24 students who slept with air-conditioning and 20 who slept in rooms without AC before, during and after a Boston-area heat wave.
(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)
Using state-of-the-art tools and cell-specific dyes in mice, Matthias Nahrendorf, M.D., Ph.D., professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and his colleagues were able to distinguish whether immune cells traveling to brain tissue damaged by stroke or meningitis, came from bone marrow in the skull or the tibia, a large legbone.
(Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, National Institutes of Health)
The researchers, from the University of California, San Francisco; the University of California, Santa Cruz; Indiana University; Washington University School of Medicine; and Harvard Medical School, published their findings in a recent issue of the journal Cell.
(Human Body Microbes Make Antibiotics, Study Finds, NCCAM)
To find genetic factors associated with primary open angle glaucoma, a research team of Harvard Medical School compared the genomes of more than 3,800 people of European ancestry who had primary open-angle glaucoma to a similar group of more than 33,000 people without it.
(Glaucoma-related genes revealed, NIH)
The scientists, based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, suspect that prenatal exposure to methylmercury, known to have toxic effects on the developing brain and nervous system, may limit the ability of nervous system tissues to grow and develop in response to increased aerobic fitness.
(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)
To better understand this outbreak, an international team led by Dr. Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute and Harvard University collected virus samples from 78 patients living in Sierra Leone near the origin of the 2014 outbreak.
(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)
A pioneering international study, carried out by the University of Granada, Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Florida, Laval University and the Jackson Laboratory has conducted an in-depth analysis of the molecular differences between the most common symptoms associated with neuropathic pain.
(Genetic study paves way for new neuropathic pain treatments, University of Granada)
A person’s average blood oxygen levels during sleep are hereditary, and relatively easy to measure, said study author Susan Redline, M.D., senior physician in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston.
(Researchers identify genetic variations linked to oxygen drops during sleep, National Institutes of Health)
The Safe Passage Study provides important new information about the role of dual exposures to prenatal smoking and drinking as risk factors for SIDS, said co-first author Hannah C. Kinney, M.D., of the Department of Pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard School of Medicine.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Alberto Ascherio of Harvard School of Public Health, set out to assess whether vitamin D status early in the disease process influences the long-term course of the disease.
(Vitamin D Levels Predict Multiple Sclerosis Progression, NIH)
