UVA

American  

Or UV-A

noun

1. ultraviolet light with a relatively long wavelength, able to penetrate the deep layers of the skin.

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Example Sentences

“Braun should be home right now from his first semester at UVA, spending the holidays with his family, their first as a family still displaced by the Palisades fire,” said Councilmember Traci Park, whose district includes Pacific Palisades.

From Los Angeles Times

After finishing her postdoctoral training at Salk, Brandebura plans to continue this line of research at UVA Health.

From Science Daily

That changed when Thomas Platts Mills, MD, PhD, a UVA Health physician and internationally recognized allergy specialist, took a closer look.

From Science Daily

"The important information for the public is: First, that severe abdominal pain occurring 3 to 5 hours after eating beef, pork or lamb should be investigated as a possible episode of anaphylaxis; and, second, that tick bites that itch for more than a week or larvae of ticks often called 'chiggers' can induce or increase sensitization to mammalian-derived meat," said Platts Mills, former chief of UVA Health's Division of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

From Science Daily

Louisiana has a primary in May in which the party’s top two vote-getters go to a runoff if no one gets 50%, said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.

From The Wall Street Journal