murine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin stem, mur-, of mus (mouse) + -ine.

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murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
  2. 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.
    • 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.

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Noun[edit]

murine (plural murines)

  1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /muˈri.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: mu‧rì‧ne

Adjective[edit]

murine

  1. feminine plural of murino

Latin[edit]

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Adjective[edit]

mūrīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of mūrīnus

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. plague; pestilence

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle French: morine
  • Norman: mouoréne
  • Poitevin-Saintongeais: mourine