Tuskegee
pronunciation
How to pronounce Tuskegee in British English:
UK [tʌs'ki:ɡi:]
How to pronounce Tuskegee in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- a town in eastern Alabama
Word Origin
- Tuskegee
- place in Alabama, named from a Muskogee tribal town taskeke (first recorded in Spanish as tasquiqui), literally "warriors."
Example
- 1. Students in the laboratory at tuskegee .
- 2. Students in a greenhouse at tuskegee .
- 3. He turned down many offers to leave tuskegee institute to become a scientist in private industry .
- 4. The first place to produce hela samples on an industrial scale was the tuskegee institute-where , at the same time , syphilitic black men were left untreated so doctors could observe the progress of the disease .
- 5. The us doctor behind the guatemala study , cutler , was also involved in a highly controversial study known as the tuskegee experiment in which hundreds of african american men with late-stage syphilis were observed given no remedial treatment for 40 years , between 1932 and 1972 .