AARHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aarhus mean? 

• AARHUS (noun)
  The noun AARHUS has 1 sense:

1. port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland

  Familiarity information: AARHUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AARHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Aarhus; Arhus

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 ("Aarhus" is a part of...):

Danmark; Denmark; Kingdom of Denmark (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea)

 Context examples 

Using the new knowledge about PCSK9, the researchers from Aarhus have begun to develop new medicine that is now ready for the first tests on patients.

(Discovery Can Pave the Way for More Effective Cholesterol Medicine, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Some of the quartz sand coming from the crater had planar deformation features indicative of a violent impact; this is conclusive evidence that the depression beneath the Hiawatha Glacier is a meteorite crater, said associate professor Nicolaj Larsen of Aarhus University in Denmark, one of the authors of the study..

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

In a study, a team of researchers at Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with a group at Aarhus University in Denmark, has shown a strong association between increased behavioural impulsivity in young adults and abnormalities in nerve cells in the putamen, a key brain region involved in addictive disorders.

(Young people at risk of addiction show differences in key brain region, University of Cambridge)

New research from Aarhus University has now uncovered the way in which PCSK9 breaks down the LDL receptors, which are a kind of receptor molecule that absorbs the bad LDL cholesterol in the blood into the liver.

(Discovery Can Pave the Way for More Effective Cholesterol Medicine, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)