murine

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

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.”
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⁽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.”

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

Any murine rodent.
“Near-synonyms: murid, muroid, mouse, rat, vole (all precisely differentiable but not always differentiated)”