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Definition of Murine

1. Noun. A rodent that is a member of the family Muridae.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice). "A murine plague"

Definition of Murine

1. a. Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridæ), of which the mouse is the type.

2. n. One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.

Definition of Murine

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Murine

1. any of a family of small rodents [n -S]

Medical Definition of Murine

1. Pertaining to mice. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Murine

muriatic acid muriaticum muriatiferous muricate muricated murices muricidal muricide muricoid muriculate

murid muridae muride murids muriform murine (current term) murine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome murine hepatitis murine leprosy murine leukaemia

murine leukaemia virus murine sarcoma virus murine typhus murines muring muringer muringers murk murked murker

Literary usage of Murine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Ornithine Decarboxylase Activity in Cells Acutely and Chronically Transformed by murine Sarcoma Virus (40301) LARY J. KILTON AND ADI F. ..."

2. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals edited by Kim Waggie (1994)
"Influence of H-2 and non-H-2 genes on resistance to murine ... Genetic control of murine cytomegalovirus infection: Virus titres in resistant and ..."

3. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association (1912)
"As a matter of fact, it is on the third floor of an old building in the wholesale grocery district, and the murine Eye Remedy Company occupies the same ..."

4. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1913)
"... Two New American Pi k as, by N. Hollister Two New murine Rodents from Turkestan, by Gerrit S. Miller, ..."

5. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association, Arthur Joseph Cramp (1912)
"Its price in England is one shilling (24 cents) a package. (From The Journal -I. .!/. A., Sept. 12, 1908.) murine EYE REMEDY murine ..."

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