murine

Etymology

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

adj

  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?
    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. 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, page 699

noun

  1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

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