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Turku

American  
[toor-koo] / ˈtʊər ku /

noun

  1. a seaport in southwestern Finland.


Turku British  
/ ˈturku /

noun

  1. Swedish name: Åbo.  a city and port in SW Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia: capital of Finland until 1812. Pop: 175 059 (2003 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The project is a collaboration between the university hospitals of Helsinki, Kuopio and Turku, Hatanpää Hospital in Tampere, Hospital Nova in Jyväskylä and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare.

From Science Daily May 6, 2026

The scientists at Turku Bioscience Centre have now discovered a novel RNA that controls the development and function of regulatory T cells.

From Science Daily May 30, 2024

An international research group led by researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital in Finland has succeeded in identifying the probable origin of stuttering in the brain.

From Science Daily May 28, 2024

The new technology, which was created at the University of Turku and developed by the company CardioSignal, uses a smartphone to analyse heart movement and detect heart failure.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2024

Adam of Bremen, having occasion to treat of the countries adjoining the Baltic, was so misled by the word Turku that this celebrated historian assures his readers that there were Turks in Finland.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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