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JOHNS HOPKINS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university in Baltimore
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 ("Johns Hopkins" is a part of...):
Baltimore (the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
Synonyms:
Hopkins; Johns Hopkins
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)
altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)
Context examples:
This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)
Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collected from 2002 to 2009 by the neutron spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)
What this tells us is that not only are many of our immune responses shaped in the first year of life, but also that certain bacteria and allergens play an important role in stimulating and training the immune system to behave a certain way, says principal investigator Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft impacted the surface of Mercury, as anticipated, at 3:26 p.m. EDT.
(NASA Completes MESSENGER Mission with Expected Impact on Mercury's Surface, NASA)
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts.
(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)
Asthma is an immune-mediated disease, said Sonali Bose, M.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins.
(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)
