PHD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PhD mean? 

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

1. a doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Ph.D.; PhD

Hypernyms ("PhD" is a kind of...):

Doctor of Philosophy (a doctorate awarded for original contributions to knowledge)

 Context examples 

PhD student Nicole Maphis says the vaccine targets a specific protein known as tau that's commonly found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

(Researchers May Have Found Way to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalcic and PhD Scholar Than-Son Pham from the Australia National University (ANU) studied shear waves, or 'J waves', in the Earth's inner core.

(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is awarded by many American universities and is equivalent to a PhD degree.

(Doctor of Engineering, NCI Thesaurus)

Professor Morris and PhD student Jess Beilharz are investigating the effects of Western-style diets on brain function and gut bacteria.

(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study was led by two postdoctoral scientists, Dr Rafael Romero-Garcia and Dr Richard Bethlehem, and Varun Warrier, a PhD student.

(Scientists link genes to brain anatomy in autism, University of Cambridge)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) (copyright 1991 Charles S. Cleeland, PhD, Pain Research Group, All Right Reserved).

(Brief Pain Inventory Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Created and published by the ADC Clinical Task Force (John C. Morris, MD, Chair) and the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (Walter A. Kukull, PhD, Director).

(Modified Hachinski Ischemic Scale-NACC Version Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI2) (copyright 1991 Charles S. Cleeland, PhD, Pain Research Group, All Right Reserved).

(Brief Pain Inventory Short Form Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A discovery made by Junhwan Kim, PhD, assistant professor at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, is challenging science's longstanding beliefs regarding the cellular makeup of the brain.

(Discovery Challenges Belief about Brain's Cellular Makeup, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Distributed feedback patterns to rewards predict heightened pain sensitivity, according to the new research led by Frauke Nees, PhD, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.

(Study in Teens Shows Brain Responses to Rewards Linked to Pain Sensitivity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)