MOUNT SINAI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mount Sinai mean? 

• MOUNT SINAI (noun)
  The noun MOUNT SINAI has 1 sense:

1. a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments

  Familiarity information: MOUNT SINAI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNT SINAI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mount Sinai; Sinai

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Mount Sinai" is a part of...):

Sinai; Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea)

 Context examples 

A team of scientists led by r. Eric J. Nestler of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to profile enzymes involved in histone methylation to see if any are influenced by cocaine.

(What Causes Cocaine Addiction, NIH, US)

The study was led by Manish Arora, Ph.D., an environmental scientist and dentist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York with support from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

(Baby teeth link autism and heavy metals, NIH)

Dr. Lo and his collaborators at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also studied human beta cells in their laboratories and determined that adipsin activates a molecule called C3a, which protects and supports beta cell function.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The research group, which included experts from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, and Arizona State University, Phoenix, originally set out to find whether drugs used to treat other diseases can be repurposed for treating Alzheimer’s.

(Viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

A research team from NYU Langone Medical Center and Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai, New York, set out to determine whether they could alter the microbiota of babies born by C-section by exposing them to maternal vaginal fluids at birth.

(Restoring microbes in infants born by cesarean section, NIH)

Asthma is an immune-mediated disease, said Sonali Bose, M.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins.

(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)