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Brattleboro
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English
+, VT
Etymology 1
From en Brattle -boro, named after Major-General William Brattle.
Proper noun
en town co/Windham County s/Vermont c/US.
Alternative forms
archaic en Brattleborough
Derived terms
en West Brattleboro
References
TopoZone: Brattleboro, Vermont
Etymology 2
+ rat
The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School.
Noun
A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.
1978, M. A. Corner, International Summer School of Brain Research, Maturation of the Nervous System: Proceedings (page 329)
Vasopressin is not detectable in the posterior pituitary of the homozygous Brattleboros.
en eponyms