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nude mouse

noun

  1. a virtually hairless mutant laboratory-bred mouse having a major immune system deficiency caused by a lack of T cells, and able to accept grafts of foreign tissue.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nude mouse1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences

When implanted into a "nude mouse" with a suppressed immune system, it integrated well and sprouted hairs.

From BBC

We think this possibility is remote because analysis of the early xenografts, which contained contaminating nude mouse DNAs, failed to detect XMRV.

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