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Word entry · 6 letters

murine

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"Mouse-related"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/Part of speech noun, adjectiveSorted eimnruStarts with MEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

Used in a sentence

  • They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while.
  • 1977, Richard Peto⁽ᵂᴾ⁾ Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?
  • 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.

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