ANKARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ankara mean? 

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

1. the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANKARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Angora; Ankara; capital of Turkey; Turkish capital

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)

 Context examples 

The MVA viral vector, derived from the replication-competent strain Ankara, is a highly attenuated, replication-defective vaccinia strain incapable of virion assembly.

(MVA-FCU1 TG4023, NCI Thesaurus)

A bivalent cancer vaccine comprised of a modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) strain encoding human mucin 1 (MUC1) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(MVA-MUC1-IL2 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of a proprietary, recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector encoding an epitope of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Modified Vaccinia Ankara (Bavarian Nordic)-HER2 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A vaccine consisting of an inactivated, Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector encoding three herpes virus cytomegalovirus (CMV) tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), including UL83 (pp65), UL123 (IE1) and UL122 (IE2), with potential immunostimulating activity.

(Multi-peptide CMV-Modified Vaccinia Ankara Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of a recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector encoding genes for prostate specific antigen (PSA) and prostate acid phosphatase (PAP) with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(MVA-PSA/PAP Prostate Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine consisting of a recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector encoding the gene for the CD4 epitope-rich C-terminal domain of the Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) antigen EBNA1 and fused to the full-length of the EBV-associated antigen latent membrane protein 2 (LMP2), with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(MVA-EBNA1/LMP2 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine comprised of a recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) viral vector encoding the suicide gene FCU1 with potential antineoplastic activity.

(MVA-FCU1 TG4023, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, modified vaccinia Ankara (Bavarian Nordic)-HER2 vaccine may stimulate the host immune system to mount humoral and cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses against HER2-expressing tumor cells, resulting in tumor cell lysis.

(Modified Vaccinia Ankara (Bavarian Nordic)-HER2 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)