PHILADELPHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Philadelphia mean? 

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

1. the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHILADELPHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

City of Brotherly Love; Philadelphia

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Philadelphia"):

Benjamin Franklin Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Delaware River)

Independence Hall (the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed)

Walt Whitman Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Delaware River)

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

Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Philadelphia chromosome adnormality; t(9;22)(q34;q11) was not tested; therefore it is not known whether it is present or not; bcr/abl gene rearrangement was not found.

(Ph Unknown/BCR-, NCI Thesaurus)

Philadelphia chromosome abnormality; (9;22)(q34;q11) was not tested; therefore it is not known if it was present or not; bcr/abl gene rearrangement was found.

(Ph Unknown/BCR+, NCI Thesaurus)

Philadelphia chromosome adnormality; t(9;22)(q34;q11) was not found; bcr/abl gene rearrangement was not found.

(Ph -/BCR-ABL-, NCI Thesaurus)

Nilotinib blocks a protein called BCR/ABL which is made in CML cells that contain the Philadelphia chromosome (an abnormal chromosome 22 that has part of chromosome 9 attached).

(Nilotinib, NCI Dictionary)

Liposomal vincristine sulfate is used to treat adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia that is Philadelphia chromosome negative and has come back or has not gotten better with other treatment.

(Liposomal vincristine sulfate, NCI Dictionary)

Philadelphia chromosome adnormality; t(9;22)(q34;q11) was not found; bcr/abl gene rearrangement was not tested; therefore it is not known if present or not.

(Ph-/BCR Unknown, NCI Thesaurus)

Philadelphia chromosome abnormality; t(9;22)(q34;q11) was not found; bcr/abl gene rearrangement was found.

(Ph-/BCR+, NCI Thesaurus)

A chronic myelogenous leukemia characterised by the t(9;22)(q34;q11) chromosomal translocation, resulting in the presence of the Philadelphia chromosome and the BCR-ABL1 fusion gene.

(Philadelphia Chromosome Positive, BCR-ABL1 Positive Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Philadelphia chromosome abnormality; t(9;22)(q34;q11) was found; bcr/abl gene rearrangement was found.

(Ph+/BCR+, NCI Thesaurus)

Philadelphia chromosome abnormality; t(9;22)(q34;q11) was found; bcr/abl gene rearrangement was not found.

(Ph+/BCR-, NCI Thesaurus)