murine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin stem, mur-, of mus (“mouse”) +‎ -ine.

Adjective

murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae.
   • 1977, Richard Peto^[1]

     Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?

   • 2002, Gilbert S. Banker & Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:

     One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.

Translations

characteristic of mice

• Catalan: murí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼠科的 (zh) (shǔkē de)

• Esperanto: musa (eo)
• Finnish: hiirimäinen (fi) (mouse-like), hiiri- (fi)
• French: murin (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: murino (it)
• Latin: murinus
• Polish: mysi (pl), szczurzy (pl)
• Russian: мыши́ный (ru) (myšínyj)
• Spanish: murino

Hypernyms

• rodential

Noun

murine (plural murines)

1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

Anagrams

• murein

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) mūrīne

1. vocative masculine singular of mūrīnus

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Old French

Etymology

Adjective murin, morin, from the verb morir (“to die”).

Noun

murine oblique singular, f (oblique plural murines, nominative singular murine, nominative plural murines)

1. plague; pestilence