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SAN DIEGO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A picturesque city of southern California on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border; site of an important naval base
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)
Meronyms (parts of "San Diego"):
San Diego Bay (a bay of the Pacific in southern California)
Holonyms ("San Diego" is a part of...):
CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)
Context examples:
James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and Ian A. Wilson, D. Phil., of The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, led the team.
(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)
The new findings, by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California, San Diego, moved the research team a step closer to unraveling the mysteries of this powerful group of chemical compounds, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
(Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products, NSF)
Researchers of the University of California San Diego have identified specific genes that may trigger the development of sleep problems, and have also demonstrated a genetic link between insomnia and psychiatric disorders such as depression, or physical conditions such as type 2 diabetes.
(Can't Sleep? Could Be Down to Genetics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In analyses of gut microbes from alcohol use disorder (AUD) patients with alcoholic hepatitis, a team of scientists led by Bernd Schnabl, M.D., of the University of California, San Diego, found that fecal samples from patients with alcoholic hepatitis had about 2,700-fold more E. faecalis than samples from non-AUD controls.
(Bacteriophage therapy may ease severity of alcoholic hepatitis, National Institutes of Health)
In this laboratory study, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston introduced ZIKV to glioblastoma tissue samples removed from cancer patients as part of their treatment, as well as to healthy human neural tissue cultures.
(Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)
Astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, used NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, Kepler-1647b, the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system, in the constellation Cygnus.
(New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Each time we exercise, we are truly doing something good for our body on many levels, including at the immune cell level, study researcher Suzi Hong, a researcher of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, said in a statement.
(Just 20 Minutes of Walking May Reduce Inflammation in Your Body, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Researchers from the University of São Paulo’s São Carlos Physics Institute, along with scientists from the University of California’s Department of Nanoengineering, in San Diego, immobilised the enzyme on an electrode coupled to a circuit with a constant flow of electrons, and then installed the device on the nose pad of the pair of glasses.
(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)
In an effort to find better depression treatments, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine discovered that inhibiting an enzyme called Glyoxalase 1 (GLO1) relieves signs of depression in mice.
(New Method for Treating Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
