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SURVIVOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An animal that survives in spite of adversity
Example:
only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("survivor" is a kind of...):
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One who outlives another
Example:
he left his farm to his survivors
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("survivor" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
survive (live longer than)
Sense 3
Meaning:
One who lives through affliction
Example:
the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("survivor" is a kind of...):
unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)
Derivation:
survive (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.))
Context examples:
However, survivors may be at increased risk of developing a subsequent treatment-related cancer.
(Study finds elevated risk of certain rare blood cancers after chemotherapy for most solid tumors, National Institutes of Health)
Collaborators from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Switzerland then cloned antibody-producing B cells from the survivor to make mAbs for potential use as a therapeutic for Ebola infection.
(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)
He can no longer be a subject for pity; we must reserve that for his miserable survivors.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
About half the animals die within a week of onset, and in survivors hepatocellular carcinoma spontaneously appears after 1-1.5 years (Kasai et al 1990,Sasaki 1985, Wirth et al 1990).
(LEC, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
In a more open part of the plateau, we could see the three survivors still running in the same direction as they had started, right for Mizzenmast Hill.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Integrated program having an objective of reducing risk, incidence, and mortality from cancer and to enhancing the quality of life for cancer survivors.
(Cancer Control, NCI Thesaurus)
A brief questionnaire designed to measure fears about recurrence and health in cancer survivors.
(Assessment of Survivor Concerns, NCI Thesaurus)
But studies of dietary patterns to assess overall diet quality in relation to overall and CRC-specific mortality are inconsistent, making the development of evidence-based recommendations for CRC survivors difficult.
(Healthy Diets Have Better Impact on Colorectal Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Lady Frances, he continued, is the sole survivor of the direct family of the late Earl of Rufton.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Antibodies isolated from two survivors bound to an essential virus protein, called glycoprotein or GP, from Zaire, Bundibugyo and Sudan Ebola virus species, and prevented the viruses from entering host cells.
(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)
