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pl. 老鼠




    Mouse \Mouse\ (mous), n.; pl. {Mice} (m[imac]s). [OE. mous, mus,
    AS. m[=u]s, pl. m[=y]s; akin to D. muis, G. maus, OHG. &
    Icel. m[=u]s, Dan. muus, Sw. mus, Russ. muishe, L. mus, Gr.
    my^s, Skr. m[=u]sh mouse, mush to steal. [root]277. Cf.
    {Muscle}, {Musk}.]
    1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents
    belonging to the genus {Mus} and various related genera of
    the family {Murid[ae]}. The common house mouse ({Mus
    musculus}) is found in nearly all countries. The American
    {white-footed mouse}, or {deer mouse} ({Peromyscus
    leucopus}, formerly {Hesperomys leucopus}) sometimes lives
    in houses. See {Dormouse}, {Meadow mouse}, under {Meadow},
    and {Harvest mouse}, under {Harvest}.

    2. (Naut.)
    (a) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to
    prevent a running eye from slipping.
    (b) Same as 2d {Mousing}, 2.

    3. A familiar term of endearment. --Shak.

    4. A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. [Slang]

    5. A match used in firing guns or blasting.

    {Field mouse}, {Flying mouse}, etc. See under {Field},
    {Flying}, etc.

    {Mouse bird} (Zo["o]l.), a coly.

    {Mouse deer} (Zo["o]l.), a chevrotain, as the kanchil.

    {Mouse galago} (Zo["o]l.), a very small West American galago
    ({Galago murinus}). In color and size it resembles a
    mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel.

    {Mouse hawk}. (Zo["o]l.)
    (a) A hawk that devours mice.
    (b) The hawk owl; -- called also {mouse owl}.

    {Mouse lemur} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of very
    small lemurs of the genus {Chirogaleus}, found in
    Madagascar.

    {Mouse piece} (Cookery), the piece of beef cut from the part
    next below the round or from the lower part of the latter;
    -- called also {mouse buttock}.

    mice \mice\ (m[imac]s), n.,
    pl. of {Mouse}.

    1. Although the ticks that carry the ailment live on deer in their adult stages, Lyme disease is transmitted by bites from immature ticks, which feed primarily on mice.
    2. In mice, an average of about eight live animals are born for every 20 micro-injected embryos.
    3. In one series of tests, she said, mice infected with what is normally a skin disease developed fewer skin ulcers under ultraviolet radiation, but between 15 percent and 40 percent of them died.
    4. Nine of the 10 mice in the experiment appeared to retain their new hearts permanently without need for continual therapy.
    5. It has been shown to cause tumors in laboratory mice.
    6. Do you have to use 150 mice or can you get by with 50?"' Federal law protects dogs, cats and monkeys but excludes reptiles, amphibians, mice, rats and rabbits.
    7. Do you have to use 150 mice or can you get by with 50?"' Federal law protects dogs, cats and monkeys but excludes reptiles, amphibians, mice, rats and rabbits.
    8. The company said in its study that high doses of AZT were given to 360 female rats and mice for about 22 months, almost their entire normal life span. The test rodents were divided into three groups and each given different doses of the drug.
    9. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup _ they all die.
    10. Many of the felines, frequently pregnant, have been there since the early 1970s, living on handouts and hunting mice and birds.
    11. Most of the mice were earmarked for shipment to researchers throughout the world, said Barbara Trevett, the laboratory's spokeswoman.
    12. In contrast, individual male mice left alone in a cage with a female for breeding developed diabetes at about half that rate, Leiter said.
    13. They said 78% of the mice had seizures after an aspartame dose equivalent to that received by a human adult who drinks about 1.5 liters of aspartame sweetened diet soda.
    14. In a study published today in Science, a group of researchers led by Jeffrey Bluestone of the University of Chicago report that an antibody called anti-CD3 triggered an immune response in laboratory mice that was able to stop the growth of tumors.
    15. Researchers injected myoblasts into mice that lacked dystrophin and found that the myoblasts fused with muscle fibers.
    16. At least two dozen turtles, marsh mice and muskrats were also found dead.
    17. "We are on the way to finding the cure for this type of arthritis in mice," Tariq M. Haqqi, a molecular biologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said Monday.
    18. The reports cited evidence of mice, flies and roaches in food-storage areas and in one case, what may have been human excrement, the News said.
    19. The results, the researchers said, show that the Apo A-1 protein inhibits the early development of atherosclerosis, at least in mice.
    20. In a separate Alzheimer's disease development, researchers who previously reported last year that they had produced a condition like the disease in mice retracted the claim in a letter to the journal Nature.
    21. If so, the mice also could be used to test vaccines, drugs or other AIDS therapies that, at present, can only be tested in humans.
    22. The article dealt with the immune responses of mice bred with an extra immune system gene from another species.
    23. "They opened the cages, and the mice and the rats (and hamsters) got out of the cages, but they did not escape from the rooms," she said.
    24. The laboratory, which distributes about 2 million mice annually to researchers, is the world's leading non-profit supplier and developer of mutant mice bred in hundreds of genetically identical strains.
    25. The laboratory, which distributes about 2 million mice annually to researchers, is the world's leading non-profit supplier and developer of mutant mice bred in hundreds of genetically identical strains.
    26. Monoclonal antibodies are protective proteins produced in mice that have been injected with human cancer cells.
    27. CDC was quick to identify the cause of a mysterious fever that has killed at least 20 people in the south-western states this year; the fever was a new Hantavirus spread by mice. Vaccines.
    28. The researchers made this kind of mutation in the gene that produces Type 1 collagen in mice.
    29. The Environmental Protection Agency has said it intends to ban Alar by 1990, based on preliminary cancer tests on mice and rats, but it is still legal to use.
    30. They worked with mice that carried a human c-myc gene, which puts them at high risk for developing a blood cell cancer called pre-B cell lymphoma.
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