UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does University of North Carolina mean? 

• UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA (noun)
  The noun UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA has 1 sense:

1. a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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 North Carolina" is a part of...):

Chapel Hill (a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina)

 Context examples 

In 2007, a team of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine developed a technology dubbed DREADD—Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs.

(Controlling Brain Circuits in Mice, NIH)

A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tested the approach as an early intervention in preschool-age children newly diagnosed with peanut allergy.

(Preschoolers benefit from peanut allergy therapy, NIH)

To search for a potential pain reliever with fewer side effects than current opioids, a research team from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, San Francisco, screened more than 3 million compounds for those that may be able to turn on the Gi-mediated pathway, but not beta-arrestin.

(Designing more effective opioids, NIH)

"The more extra-axial CSF present at six months, the more severe the autism symptoms when the kids were diagnosed at 24 months of age," said first author Dr. Mark Shen, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina.

(Scientists say excess cerebrospinal fluid may serve as early sign of autism, Wikinews)

Women who experience pregnancy loss and do not go on to have children are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart disease and stroke, compared with women who have only one or two children, according to new research from the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina.

(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)

In the study, scientists led by Scott Parnell, Ph.D., at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, administered a variety of CBs alone and in combination with alcohol in varying amounts to mice on day eight of pregnancy, which is similar to the third and fourth weeks of pregnancy in humans.

(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)

A study by the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these behaviors often inevitably evolve in species that form pair-bonds.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)

Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)