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HARTLEY

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Overview

HARTLEY (noun)
  The noun HARTLEY has 1 sense:

1. English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


HARTLEY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

David Hartley; Hartley

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)


 Context examples 


The Hartley Guinea Pig has a white coat color (acromelanic albino) and red eyes and requires a nutritional source of vitamin C to sustain normal function.

(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The skin of the Hartley Hairless guinea pig resembles many physical and physiological aspects of human skin and spontaneous formation of melanoma is common to this strain.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Dunkin Hartley guinea pig is a crepuscular mammalian herbivore that is tailless with short legs and a large head.

(Dunkin Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Hartley guinea pig was imported from the Medical Research Council, Millhill, England, to Charles River in 1968 for propagation.

(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Dunkin Hartley guinea pig has a white coat color (acromelanic albino) and red eyes and requires a nutritional source of vitamin C to sustain normal function.

(Dunkin Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from inbred Hartley stocks at the Eastman Kodak Company and Montreal's Institute Armand Frappier, having undergone spontaneous mutation that led to hairlessness and athymicity.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Hartley guinea pig is used as an animal model for studying human diseases and toxins harmful to man, as well as the development of serums and vaccines.

(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The mutation that spawned the Hartley Hairless Guinea Pig was then re-derived at Charles River to restore thymus function while maintaining hairlessness.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)



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