Toyama

[ taw-yah-mah ]

noun

1. a city on W Honshu, in central Japan.

Toyama

/ ˈtəʊjɑːˌmɑː /

noun

1. a city in central Japan, on W Honshu on Toyama Bay (an inlet of the Sea of Japan): chemical and textile centre. Pop: 321 049 (2002 est)

Example Sentences

In order to produce offspring from xenotransplanted ovaries, Japanese researchers at Niigata University and University of Toyama conducted a study to establish a system to produce offspring from eggs obtained by transplanting rat ovaries into mice.

From Science Daily

"There have been reports on the acquisition of eggs and embryos using interspecies ovarian transplantation into mouse recipients, but there are no successful cases of offspring production. In this study, we were able to produce fertilized eggs and offspring, overcoming this tough challenge," says Runa Hirayama, a graduate student at the University of Toyama.

From Science Daily

In a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, a team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Masato Mori from Kyushu University's Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, Toyama University, and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, shed new light on the phenomenon.

From Science Daily

In an international collaboration among the University of Southampton, University of Melbourne, University of Tehran, University of South Alabama, University of Toyama and University of Copenhagen, the work builds on a previous collaborative study that described novel mechanisms of human sarcopenia.

From Science Daily

ANA Flight 1182 was en route to Toyama airport in central Japan on Saturday but had to return to the New Chitose airport for repairs, the airline said.

From Seattle Times