Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carrel

2 senses of carrel

Sense 1
Carrel, Alexis Carrel -- (French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944))
       INSTANCE OF=> surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones -- (a physician who specializes in surgery)
       INSTANCE OF=> biologist, life scientist -- ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Sense 2
carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall -- (small individual study area in a library)
       => alcove, bay -- (a small recess opening off a larger room)