murine

murine

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/

Adjective

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

     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.

Hypernyms

• rodential

Translations

characteristic of mice

Arabic: فَأْرِيّ‎ (faʾriyy) Belarusian: мышы́ны (myšýny), шчу́равы (ščúravy) (of rats), пацучы́ны (pacučýny) (of rats), пацуко́ў (pacukóŭ) (of rats) Bulgarian: ми́ши (míši) Catalan: murí (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 鼠科的 (zh) (shǔkē de), 鼠的 (zh) (shǔ de) Czech: myší (cs), krysí (cs) (of rats) Esperanto: musa (eo) Finnish: hiirimäinen (fi) (mouse-like), hiiri- (fi) French: murin (fr) German: Maus- (de) Italian: murino (it) Japanese: ネズミの (ja) (nezumi no) Korean: 쥐의 (ko) (jwi-ui) Latin: mūrīnus Macedonian: глувчешки (gluvčeški) Polish: mysi (pl), szczurzy (pl) (of rats) Portuguese: murino (pt) Russian: мыши́ный (ru) (myšínyj), крыси́ный (ru) (krysínyj) (of rats) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏шјӣ Roman: mȉšjī (sh) Slovak: myší, myšací Slovene: mišji Spanish: murino, ratonero Ukrainian: ми́шачий (mýšačyj), щуря́чий (ščurjáčyj) (of rats), пацюко́вий (pacjukóvyj) (of rats), пацю́чий (pacjúčyj) (of rats)

Noun

murine (plural murines)

1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

Anagrams

• murein, unimer

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

murine

1. feminine plural of murino

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːˈriː.ne/, [muːˈriːnɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /muˈri.ne/, [muˈriːne]

Adjective

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

1. plague; pestilence