SAN DIEGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does San Diego mean? 

• SAN DIEGO (noun)
  The noun SAN DIEGO has 1 sense:

1. a picturesque city of southern California on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border; site of an important naval base

  Familiarity information: SAN DIEGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAN DIEGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A picturesque city of southern California on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border; site of an important naval base

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

Meronyms (parts of "San Diego"):

San Diego Bay (a bay of the Pacific in southern California)

Holonyms ("San Diego" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

 Context examples 

Exactly how it repairs itself remained a mystery until recently, when researchers from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, discovered a type of cell in mice essential to the process.

(Newly discovered cells restore liver damage in mice without cancer risk, NIH)

Researchers at the University of California San Diego studying how animals respond to infections have found a new pathway that may help in tolerating stressors that damage proteins.

(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists are from San Diego State University, University of Hawaii and from the Ocean University of Sri Lanka.

(Too much algae and too many microbes threaten coral reefs, NSF)

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Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have found that low oxygen levels in seawater could blind some marine invertebrates.

(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)

A research team from the University of California, San Diego, has been studying fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS), a type of cell that lines joints and contributes to joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis.

(Rheumatoid arthritis mechanisms may vary by joint, NIH)

Findings were presented on Sunday during the 2018 Experimental Biology meeting held in San Diego.

(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An international team led by Dr. Shaochen Chen at the University of California, San Diego, set out to develop a nanoparticle-based detoxification device that wouldn’t be hazardous to patients.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

Palmer and team are already working with medicinal chemists at UC San Diego to develop drugs that target GLO1.

(New Method for Treating Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, have proposed at least 3 different ways that the brain might encode episodic memories.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)