UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does University of Nebraska mean? 

• UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (noun)
  The noun UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA has 1 sense:

1. a university in Lincoln, Nebraska

  Familiarity information: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Lincoln, Nebraska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("University of Nebraska" is a part of...):

capital of Nebraska; Lincoln (capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska)

 Context examples 

The Center incorporates the expertise and resources from the colleges and institutes at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as well as its affiliated hospital, The Nebraska Medical Center.

(Eppley Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Results of a University of Nebraska Medical Center study found if the standard supplementation of 400 IUs of vitamin D is increased to 800 IUs daily there are reductions in the number of premature and preterm babies with extremely low bone density.

(Higher Dose of Vitamin D Increases Bone Density in Premature Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A research team led by Drs. Jerod S. Denton of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Peter M. Piermarini of Ohio State University, and Corey Hopkins of the University of Nebraska Medical Center set out to develop a new class of insecticides that target the mosquito kidney.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

Infant deaths from sepsis (bacterial infection of the blood) can be reduced almost by half with doses of healthy gut bacteria, according to the results of a randomised trial conducted in India’s Odisha state by researchers at the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center in the United States.

(Friendly gut bacteria can help fight infant deaths, SciDev.Net )