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HARVEY

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Overview

HARVEY (noun)
  The noun HARVEY has 1 sense:

1. English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


HARVEY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harvey; William Harvey

Instance hypernyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)


 Context examples 


The oncogene (v-ras-Ha or v-Ha-ras) of Harvey murine sarcoma virus (Ha-MuSV) encodes a transforming protein.

(Oncogene H-Ras, NCI Thesaurus)

For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States: Harvey in 2017, Florence in 2018 and Imelda in 2019.

(Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)

Harvey in 1964.

(Harvey Murine Sarcoma Virus, NCI Thesaurus)



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