murine
/ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
murine adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
Adjective
murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
- They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while.2023, Kate Atkinson, “Existential Marginalisation”, in Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Penguin (2024), page 133
- 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.
- Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?1977, Richard Peto⁽ᵂᴾ⁾
- 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.2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699
Noun
murine (plural murines)
- Any murine rodent.
- Near-synonyms: murid, muroid, mouse, rat, vole (all precisely differentiable but not always differentiated)
murine meaning in Tamil and Arabic
murine in Tamil
- வீட்டெலி
murine in Arabic
- characteristic of mice
- فَأْرِيّ faʔriyy
Examples of murine in a sentence
- TP53 is the human homolog of murine Trp53.
- Mice were subcutaneously inoculated with a tumor cell line LM3, derived from a murine mammary adenocarcinoma.
- Thus, the presence and nephritogenicity of nucleosome-containing immune complexes were verified in kidney biopsies of murine and human LN.
Synonyms of murine
Forms of murine
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more murine |
| superlative | most murine |
| Noun | |
| plural | murines |
Origin of murine
Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).
Words formed from murine
Questions about murine
- What does murine mean?
- Murine means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
- What is murine in Tamil?
- Murine in Tamil is வீட்டெலி. See Murine meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is murine?
- Murine can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce murine?
- Murine is pronounced /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/.
Words near murine in the dictionary
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