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ST. LOUIS
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
Synonyms:
Gateway to the West; Saint Louis; St. Louis
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)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("St. Louis" is a part of...):
Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)
Sense 2
Meaning:
King of France and son of Louis VIII; he led two unsuccessful Crusades; considered an ideal medieval king (1214-1270)
Synonyms:
Louis IX; Saint Louis; St. Louis
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
King of France (the sovereign ruler of France)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Context examples:
Biomedical engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated that, by injecting an artificial protein made from a solution of ordered and disordered segments, a solid scaffold forms in response to body heat, and in a few weeks seamlessly integrates into tissue.
(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of British Columbia analyzed tumor samples from more than 2,500 patients with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, one of the most common forms of the disease.
(Study finds new clues in understanding relapse in breast cancer, Agência Brasil)
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a remote controlled, next-generation tissue implant that allows neuroscientists to inject drugs and shine lights on neurons deep inside the brains of mice.
(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)
In the current study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Emory University in Atlanta explored the potential genetic foundation of this behavior, which can appear by the first 6 months of age and persist as children grow older.
(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)
Our findings indicate that doctors should not be afraid to use older red cells in critically ill children, said study co-principal investigator Philip Spinella, M.D., a researcher with the Pediatric Critical Care Translational Research Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)
