SANGER

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• SANGER (noun)
  The noun SANGER has 2 senses:

1. English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)

2. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)

  Familiarity information: SANGER used as a noun is rare.

• SANGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fred Sanger; Frederick Sanger; Sanger

Instance hypernyms:

biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Margaret Higgins Sanger; Margaret Sanger; Sanger

Instance hypernyms:

nurse (one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician))

 Context examples 

Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL-EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes.

(Ensembl, NCI Thesaurus)

We know from previous studies that variants across our DNA contribute towards breast cancer risk, but only rarely have scientists have been able to identify exactly which genes are involved, said Dr Laura Fachal from the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

(Detailed genetic study provides most comprehensive map of risk to date of breast cancer risk, University of Cambridge)