Brattleboro

English

Etymology 1

From Brattle +‎ -boro, named after Major-General William Brattle.

Proper noun

Brattleboro

1. A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

Alternative forms

• (archaic) Brattleborough

Etymology 2

The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School.

Noun

Brattleboro (plural Brattleboros)

1. A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.
   • 1978, M. A. Corner, International Summer School of Brain Research, Maturation of the Nervous System: Proceedings (page 329)

     Vasopressin is not detectable in the posterior pituitary of the homozygous Brattleboros.