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Murine vs Urine - What's the difference?

murine | urine |

As an adjective murine

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

As a noun urine is

liquid excrement consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.

murine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , passage=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. , page=699 , title=Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition , author=Gilbert S. Banker & Christopher T. Rhodes , publisher=Informa Health Care , year=2002 , isbn=0824706749}}

    Hypernyms

    * rodential

    Anagrams

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    urine

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (physiology) Liquid excrement consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine .}}

    Derived terms

    * urinal * urinary * urinate * urination * urinose * urinous

    Synonyms

    * See

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