Ochoa

[ oh-choh-uh; Spanish aw-chaw-ah ]

noun

1. Se·ve·ro [s, uh, -, vair, -oh, se-, ve, -, r, aw], 1905–93, U.S. biochemist, born in Spain: Nobel Prize in medicine 1959.

Ochoa

/ ō-chō′ə /

1. Spanish-born American geneticist who in 1955 discovered an enzyme that was used in the first synthesis of artificial RNA. For this work he shared with Arthur Kornberg the 1959 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

Example Sentences

Shot mostly at night in Mexico City, the film chronicled the Ochoa family, which owned and operated a private ambulance in the bustling city.

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Ochoa Bogh abstained from voting on the measure when it left the state Legislature this year, as did several other fellow Republicans.

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Nearly half of constituents in the district are now new to Ochoa Bogh, a process she called “demoralizing” but one that has motivated her to hold about 50 town halls.

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Student applications will open this winter or spring, Ochoa said.

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When told he was the first to fire up, Ochoa let out an enthusiastic whoop.

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