Brattleboro

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proper noun

A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

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Meanings

Brattleboro1

proper noun

alternative Brattleborough

  1. A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

Brattleboro2

nounBrattleboro (plural Brattleboros)

plural Brattleboros

  1. A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.

    Vasopressin is not detectable in the posterior pituitary of the homozygous Brattleboros.

    1978, M. A. Corner, International Summer School of Brain Research, Maturation of the Nervous System: Proceedings (page 329)

Origin

Brattleboro · proper noun

From Brattle + -boro, named after Major-General William Brattle.

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Brattleboro · noun

The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School.

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APA

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Chicago

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