murine
IPA: mjˈʊrin
noun
- (zoology) Any murine mammal.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
- More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
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Examples of "murine" in Sentences
- S180 is a murine cancer cell line.
- A new murine opossum from Argentina.
- Murine eosinophil differentiation factor.
- It is the causative agent of Murine typhus.
- The fact that the antibody is murine is extra.
- It is highly homologous to the murine Npm3 gene.
- Details concerning the murine profiles will be published elsewhere.
- Activity was studied in the murine ependymoblastoma brain tumor system.
- The resulting murine antibodies are harvested and used to vaccinate other mice.