GALVESTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Galveston mean? 

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

1. a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALVESTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

 Context examples 

A team led by Dr. Thomas Geisbert at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, in collaboration with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals in Vancouver, Canada, have been developing therapies that can target specific strains of the Ebola virus.

(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)

In this laboratory study, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston introduced ZIKV to glioblastoma tissue samples removed from cancer patients as part of their treatment, as well as to healthy human neural tissue cultures.

(Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Profectus BioSciences of New York are developing and testing the candidate quadrivalent VesiculoVax vaccine, with support from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Redeemer’s University in Nigeria.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)