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Barnard

[ bahr-nahrd, -nerd bahr-nerd ]

noun

  1. Chris·tiaan N(eeth·ling) [kris, -tyahn , nit, -ling], 1922–2001, South African surgeon: performed first successful human-heart transplant 1967.
  2. Edward Emerson, 1857–1923, U.S. astronomer.
  3. Frederick Augustus Porter, 1809–89, U.S. educator and advocate of higher education for women: president of Columbia University 1864–89.
  4. George Gray, 1863–1938, U.S. sculptor.
  5. Henry, 1811–1900, U.S. educator.
  6. a male given name.


Barnard

/ ˈbɑːnɑːd /

noun

  1. BarnardChristiaan (Neethling)19232001MSouth AfricanMEDICINE: surgeon, Christiaan ( Neethling ). 1923–2001, South African surgeon, who performed the first human heart transplant (1967)
  2. BarnardEdward Emerson18571923MUSSCIENCE: astronomer Edward Emerson . 1857–1923, US astronomer: noted for his discovery of the fifth satellite of Jupiter and his discovery of comets, nebulae, and a red dwarf (1916)


Barnard

/ bärnərd /

  1. South African surgeon who performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967.


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By no means does this discrepancy indicate that Barnard is necessarily safer for women.

As Barnard noted, “it is still sexist to send a simplified and generalized image of masculinity.”

My mind is as fertile as when I graduated from Barnard College.

Megan Barnard of the Ransom Center looks to the correspondence of Russell Banks for answers.

President Obama recently exhorted young Barnard graduates to “fight for a seat at the head of the table.”

The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

I beg to offer a few observations to strangers in reference to Barnard Castle as an angling station.

Captain Barnard, Rollins, Nute, and myself preferred the ship's boat.

Three weeks afterwards, the 1st of August, unexpectedly to himself, Barnard was recalled.

Barnard's departure from Boston was signalized by the ringing of bells, and firing of cannon, and bonfires at night.

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