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VINSON
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• VINSON (noun)
The noun VINSON has 1 sense:
1. United States jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1890-1953)
Familiarity information: VINSON used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1890-1953)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Frederick Moore Vinson; Vinson
Instance hypernyms:
chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)
Context examples
Also called Plummer-Vinson syndrome and sideropenic dysphagia.
(Paterson-Kelly syndrome, NCI Dictionary)
It is composed of mucosa and submucosa and it may be associated with Plummer-Vinson syndrome.
(Esophageal Web, NCI Thesaurus)
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