LEIDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Leiden mean? 

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

1. a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEIDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Leiden; Leyden

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Leiden" is a part of...):

Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)

 Context examples 

A measurement of the Factor V Leiden in a biological specimen.

(Factor V Leiden Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of Factor V Leiden present in a sample.

(Factor V Leiden Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Human F5 Leiden allele is a variant form of the F5 gene that is located in the vicinity of 1q23 and is approximately 75 kb in length.

(F5 Leiden Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormality that refers to mutation of factor V Leiden, which is a variant of human factor V. It results in thrombophilia, deep vein thrombosis, and a slightly increased risk of miscarriage.

(Factor V Leiden Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

An organization based in Leiden, Netherlands that coordinates the collection of HLA phenotypes from volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood donors, and is responsible for coordination of their distribution worldwide.

(Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide, NCI Thesaurus)

The team of researchers – from the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, New York and Leiden – say their findings highlight a pressing need for greater support for couples before, during and after pregnancy to improve outcomes for children.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

The researchers of Leiden University in the Netherlands focused on a type of molecule called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are flat molecules consisting of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern, surrounded by hydrogen.

(“Kitchen Smoke” Molecules in Nebula Offer Clues to the Building Blocks of Life, NASA)

Two teams of astronomers, one from INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri in Florence, Italy and the second from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and from University College London, United Kingdom, have harnessed the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to detect the prebiotic complex organic molecule methyl isocyanate in the multiple star system IRAS 16293-2422.

(ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars, ESO)

This allele, which encodes coagulation factor V Leiden protein, is involved in hypercoagulability due to resistance to degradation by activated protein C.

(F5 Leiden Allele, NCI Thesaurus)