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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981)
Synonyms:
Joe Louis; Joseph Louis Barrow; Louis
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
gladiator; prizefighter (a professional boxer)
Context examples:
The only men worth considering are Adolph Mayer, of 13, Great George Street, Westminster; Louis La Rothière, of Campden Mansions, Notting Hill; and Hugo Oberstein, 13, Caulfield Gardens, Kensington.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On July 25, which was the 110th anniversary of the first plane flight across the Channel by pilot Louis Blériot, Zapata fell into the water after a low-speed collision with the resupply boat.
(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)
In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, researchers on three continents — including biologists from Washington University in St. Louis — have mapped the crystal structure of a key protein that makes the metabolites responsible for the bitter taste in Brassicas.
(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)
Our findings indicate that doctors should not be afraid to use older red cells in critically ill children, said study co-principal investigator Philip Spinella, M.D., a researcher with the Pediatric Critical Care Translational Research Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)
It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes—doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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)
Biomedical engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated that, by injecting an artificial protein made from a solution of ordered and disordered segments, a solid scaffold forms in response to body heat, and in a few weeks seamlessly integrates into tissue.
(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a remote controlled, next-generation tissue implant that allows neuroscientists to inject drugs and shine lights on neurons deep inside the brains of mice.
(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)
In the current study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Emory University in Atlanta explored the potential genetic foundation of this behavior, which can appear by the first 6 months of age and persist as children grow older.
(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)
