EVANS

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• EVANS (noun)
  The noun EVANS has 2 senses:

1. United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971)

2. British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941)

  Familiarity information: EVANS used as a noun is rare.

• EVANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Evans; Herbert McLean Evans

Instance hypernyms:

anatomist (an expert in anatomy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur Evans; Evans; Sir Arthur John Evans

Instance hypernyms:

archaeologist; archeologist (an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture)

 Context examples 

The Long-Evans rat is utilized in a variety of research applications including obesity and behavioral research.

(LE, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A hereditary syndrome this is characterized by palmoplantar keratoderma accompanied by leukoplakia and may be associated with a high lifetime risk of esophageal cancer, as seen in Howel-Evans Syndrome.

(Palmoplantar Keratoderma with Leukoplakia, NCI Thesaurus)

A surgicopathological staging system for neuroblastoma, based on the Evans staging system.

(International Neuroblastoma Staging System, NCI Thesaurus)

A staging system for neuroblastoma proposed by Evans, based on both the site of origin and the clinical behavior of the tumor.

(Evans Staging System, NCI Thesaurus)

His name was Evans, but he afterwards changed it, like myself, and he is now a rich and prosperous man in the south of England.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Derived by Long and Evans (1915) by crossing female Wistar rats with a wild gray male, the Long-Evans rat was disseminated to Charles River from Canadian Breeding Farm and Laboratories (1978).

(LE, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Our boat lay, rising and falling, upon the long, smooth rollers, and Evans and I, who were the most educated of the party, were sitting in the sheets working out our position and planning what coast we should make for.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After an excellent voyage the Hotspur landed us at Sydney, where Evans and I changed our names and made our way to the diggings, where, among the crowds who were gathered from all nations, we had no difficulty in losing our former identities.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)