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CAROLINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina
Synonyms:
Carolina; Carolinas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Carolina"):
N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)
Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)
Holonyms ("Carolina" is a part of...):
South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
Context examples:
In the study, scientists led by Scott Parnell, Ph.D., at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, administered a variety of CBs alone and in combination with alcohol in varying amounts to mice on day eight of pregnancy, which is similar to the third and fourth weeks of pregnancy in humans.
(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)
Doctors from the Duke Center for Atrial Fibrillation in North Carolina, US, highlight that the chocolate eaters in the study were healthier and more highly educated — factors associated with better general health — which might have influenced the findings.
(Eat Chocolate for Steady Heartbea, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.
(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
To search for a potential pain reliever with fewer side effects than current opioids, a research team from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, San Francisco, screened more than 3 million compounds for those that may be able to turn on the Gi-mediated pathway, but not beta-arrestin.
(Designing more effective opioids, NIH)
A study by the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these behaviors often inevitably evolve in species that form pair-bonds.
(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)
During the eclipse on August 21, the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, completely blocking the face of the sun and darkening skies all the way from Oregon on the West Coast to South Carolina on the East Coast.
(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)
This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists from the Universities of California and North Carolina, with several other universities in the United States and Canada, report a strong correlation between abnormal distribution of cerebrospinal fluid in infants and later development of autistic symptoms.
(Scientists say excess cerebrospinal fluid may serve as early sign of autism, Wikinews)
In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State University engineers designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy.
(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The transistor was developed through tests and modelling carried out jointly by researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, the University of Würzburg, Germany, and the University of South Carolina, United States.
(Transistor that mimics neurons developed, SciDev.Net)
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