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PAVLOV
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• PAVLOV (noun)
The noun PAVLOV has 1 sense:
1. Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
Familiarity information: PAVLOV used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Ivan Pavlov; Ivan Petrovich Pavlov; Pavlov
Instance hypernyms:
physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)
Derivation:
Pavlovian (of or relating to Ivan Pavlov or his experiments)
Context examples
Named after the author of the experiments (Dr. I. Pavlov) in which dogs were conditioned to salivate at the sound of a tone.
(Pavlovian Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)
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