murine

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/

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

murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)

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

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murine (plural murines)

1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

• murein

mūrīne

1. vocative masculine singular of mūrīnus

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

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

1. plague; pestilence