| 释义 |
▪ I. murine, a. and n.|ˈmjʊəraɪn, -rɪn|
Also 7 murin.
[ad. L. mūrīn-us, f. mūr-, mūs mouse.]
A. adj.
a. Resembling a mouse; of or belonging to the family Muridæ or the sub-family Murinæ.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 506 The Murin wantonnesse of Xenophon. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xxii. 144 A murine or mouse oppossum. 1877Coues & Allen N. Amer. Rod. 7 Sigmodont rats..; highly murine in general aspect.
b. Affecting mice or rats; esp. in murine typhus [tr. F. typhus murin (C. Nicolle et al. 1932, in Compt. Rend. CXCIV. 1706)].
1933Biol. Abstr. VII. 395/1 The name ‘historic typhus’ is proposed for the African (Old-World) form, and ‘murine’ typhus for the other 2. 1940Jrnl. Exper. Med. LXXII. 417 In marked contrast to the white mouse and cotton rat, the murine virus induces no symptoms whatever..in other rodents. 1947J. C. Snyder in F. H. Top et al. Communicable Diseases (ed. 2) lix. 879 Unlike the human body louse, which suffers a fatal infection with typhus, the rat flea is unharmed by the multiplication of murine typhus rickettsiae in its tissues. 1955Sci. Amer. Jan. 74/3 Murine typhus, which occurs in many parts of the world including the U.S., is comparatively mild but closely related to epidemic typhus; an attack by one confers immunity after recovery against both. 1970Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xviii. 86/1 Rickettsia prowazekii is responsible for epidemic typhus, which is transmitted by lice. R. mooserii [sic] causes the milder endemic murine typhus, primarily a disease of rats, amongst which it is spread by the rat flea. Ibid. xix. 51/2 Murine typhus is not lethal to rats and hence is not accompanied by deviation of rat fleas to man on the scale found in murine bubonic plague.
B. n. A member of the family Muridæ or of the sub-family Murinæ.
1879Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 112 These, although true Murines, have a very Rabbit-like character.
▪ II. murine
error (? after L. muria brine) or misprint for marine v.
1656Marnettè Perf. Cook ii. 24 To murine Carps. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 83/2 Murine, or Marinate, is to pickle any sort of Fish, for to keep them. |
