UPPSALA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uppsala mean? 

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

1. a city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPSALA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Uppsala; Upsala

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Kingdom of Sweden; Sverige; Sweden (a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula)

 Context examples 

In a new study from Uppsala University, researchers showed that tea consumption in women leads to epigenetic changes in genes that are known to interact with cancer and estrogen metabolism.

(Tea Consumption: Epigenetic Changes in Women, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from Princeton University in the United States and Uppsala University in Sweden reported the new species evolved in just two generations, though this process had been believed to take much longer, due to breeding between an endemic Darwin finch, Geospiza fortes, and the immigrant cactus finch, Geospiza conirostris.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

In the current study, researchers from Uppsala University in collaboration with research groups around Europe, investigated if coffee and tea consumption may lead to epigenetic changes.

(Tea Consumption: Epigenetic Changes in Women, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)