| mouse-ear | <botany> The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus. A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella). Mouse-ear chickweed, a name of two common species of chickweed (Cerastium vulgarium, and C. Viscosum). Mouse-ear cress, a low cruciferous herb (Sisymbrium Thaliana). All these are low herbs with soft, oval, or obovate leaves, whence the name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mouse hepatitis | A form of hepatitis in mice due to synergism between the mouse hepatitis virus and Eperythrozoon coccoides. Synonym: murine hepatitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mouse leukaemia viruses | Retroviruses of the murine leukaemia-sarcoma complex that produce leukaemia and sometimes lymphosarcomas in mice, including the Abelron, Gross, Moloney, Friend, and Rauscher strains of virus; they have been isolated from inbred mice having high incidence of spontaneous lymphoid leukaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mouse poliomyelitis | Encephalomyelitis due to the mouse encephalomyelitis virus (a species of Enterovirus) which is not pathogenic in monkeys or in man, but attacks mouse colonies and causes a flaccid paralysis, usually of the hind limbs. Synonym: mouse poliomyelitis, Theiler's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mouse-tooth forceps | A forceps with one or two fine points at the tip of each blade, fitting into hollows between the points on the opposite blade. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mouse unit | The quantity of oestrogen capable of producing in a spayed mouse a characteristic change in the vaginal epithelium, namely, disappearance of leukocytes and appearance of cornified cells, as determined by a vaginal smear; equal approximately to one-half of an estrone unit. Synonym: mouse unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| multimammate mouse | An African rodent, Praomys natalensis, widely used in cancer research. (05 Mar 2000) |
| xid mouse | <genetics> A lab mouse that has a Y-linked immune deficiency gene. (06 May 1997) |
| sea mouse | <zoology> A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides. The dunlin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| nude mouse | A hairless mutant mouse with thymic hypoplasia, lacking T-cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute disseminated encephalomyelitis | <radiology> Immune-mediated encephalitis (IME), ADE, allergic treatmentn to prior infection, begins 1-2 weeks after event, occus after viral infection or vaccination, affects corpus callosum and white matter (above and below tent), self-limited; steroids may help See also: white-matter disease, demyelinating disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| acute necrotizing haemorrhagic encephalomyelitis | A fulminating demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system that affects mainly children and young adults. Almost always preceded by a respiratory infection, characterised by the abrupt onset of fever, headache, confusion, and nuchal rigidity, soon followed by focal seizures, hemiplegia, or quadriplegia, brainstem findings, and coma; the CSF shows evidence of an inflammatory process; due to the massive destruction of the white matter of one or both hemispheres, often accompanied by similar destruction of the white matter of the brainstem and cerebellar peduncles; of unknown aetiology. Synonym: acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis, acute necrotizing haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avian infectious encephalomyelitis | <veterinary> A disease of very young chicks caused by a picornavirus and characterised by tremor, ataxia, somnolence, and finally death. Synonym: epidemic tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign myalgic encephalomyelitis | An epidemic disease characterised by stiffness of the neck and back, headache, diarrhoea, fever, and localised muscular weakness; restricted almost exclusively to adults, affecting women more than men; probably viral in origin. Synonym: Akureyri disease, benign myalgic encephalomyelitis, epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis, Iceland disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bovine sporadic encephalomyelitis | An acute, septic encephalomyelitis, pleuritis, and peritonitis of cattle caused by Chlamydia psittaci; it occurs in the north central United States. Synonym: Buss disease. (05 Mar 2000) |