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Any small rodent of the genus Mus.

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A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.

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A quiet or shy person.

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(plural mice or, rarely, mouses) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.

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Hematoma.

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A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.

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A familiar term of endearment.

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A match used in firing guns or blasting.

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A small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties (depending on the context).

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A small cushion for a woman's hair.

It will alert you when you have mice or termites.

An old Cat was in a fair way to kill all the Mice in the barn.

It grows rarely to a length of 4 ft.; it never bites, and feeds chiefly on frogs, toads and fishes, but mice are never taken.

They don't have mice in the Holiday Inn, do they?

The wild mouse, rat and rabbit are self-coloured, but the domesticated forms include various piebald patterns, such as spotted forms among mice, and the familiar black and white hooded and dorsal-striped pattern of some tame rats.

The typical rats and mice, together with their nearest relatives, constitute the sub-family Murinae, which is represented by more than three hundred species, distributed over the whole of the Old World except Madagascar.

The only cat we had was a stray and it was allowed to stay around because it killed mice.

It is of no particular service to man, neither its flesh nor its fur being generally put to use, while the statement that its presence is sufficient to drive off rats and mice appears to be without foundation.

The genus Mus, with about a couple of hundred species, includes the true mice A FIG.

Well, at least you won't have mice in the woodshed.

By the time they were ready to leave, all of Bird Song was up and about, scurrying around like mice in a cheese shop.

Voles, as typified by the water-rat and the tailed fieldmouse, are stouter built and shorter-nosed rodentsthan the typical rats and mice, with smaller ears and eyes and shorter tails; all being good burrowers.

He was educated privately and was so precocious a boy as to translate a Latin version of the Battle of the Frogs and Mice into French in 1796, which was published by his father in 1797.

After unsuccessful attempts to rid themselves of the mice, the farmers appealed to the United States Biological Survey, and alfalfa hay poisoned with strychnia sulphate was used successfully in the Humboldt Valley in January 1908 and in the Carson Valley, where a similar plague threatened, in April 1908.5 Minerals.

They have very small eyes, blunt snouts, inconspicuous ears and short limbs and tails, in all of which points they are markedly contrasted with true rats and mice.

Noteworthy in the animal life of the lower Sonoran and tropic region are a variety of snakes and lizards, desert rats and mice; and, among birds, the cactus wren, desert thrasher, desert sparrow, Texas night-hawk, mocking-bird and ground cuckoo or road runner (Geococcyx Californianus).

The vaccine has been shown to clear clumps of the protein beta amyloid in the brains of genetically engineered mice.

Researchers have reported a powerful healing effect on mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, which mimics the symptoms of MS.

In order to image mice a specially made contact lens is necessary to correct for severe myopia [4] .

They 've been quiet as dead mice ever since.

From mice to shire horses, goats to guineapigs.

Information on pet and fancy mice, spiny mice and zebra mice - ranging from basic care, housing and handling to breeding.

We previously demonstrated the selective presence of 5T2MM cells in bone marrow and spleen of diseased mice.

These latter studies will require examination of spleen cells obtained from the mice at post-mortem.

Contrary to expectation, the weight of mice deficient in a major uncoupling protein, UCP2, has been found to be normal.

Nevertheless, some mice will be operated on during the embryo transfer and vasectomy procedures but these operations will be performed under general anesthesia.

Written by a veterinarian, this document focuses on the diseases of mice.

It tastes like the sugar mice you can buy to hang on xmas trees !

We have set two dozen traps in an attempt to eradicate the mice from our house.

The big dividing line in the mouse world, however, is between wireless and corded mice.

Best Buy has corded and wireless mice for PCs and Macintosh computers.

The tree is a favourite with hares and rabbits, and the seedlings are apt to be destroyed by mice.

Of the lower animals, mice, rats, guinea-pigs, rabbits, squirrels and monkeys are susceptible to the bacillus; horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs and cats are more or less resistant, but cats and dogs have been known to die of plague (Oporto, Daman, Cutch and Poona).

Many of the works once attributed to him are lost; those which remain are the two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, thirty-three Hymns, a mock epic (the Battle of the Frogs and Mice), and some pieces of a few lines each (the so-called Epigrams).

The waters of this cavern appear to be entirely destitute of life; and the existing fauna comprises only a few bats, rats, mice, spiders, flies and small centipedes.

The rodents are the most numerously represented order, which includes the coypu or nutria (Myopotamus coypus), the chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger), the tuco-tuco (Ctenomys brasiliensis), a rabbit, and 12 species of mice - in all some 12 genera and 25 species.

A similar increase in virulence appears to occur in plague, where animals, especially rats and mice, seem to be affected before human beings, and not only increase the virulence of the microbes, but convey the infection.

Rats and mice swarm, both kinds and individuals being numerous, but few present much peculiarity, a bamboo rat (Rhizomys) from the base of the eastern Himalaya being perhaps most worthy of notice.

Characteristic forms of the Upper Sonoran zone are the burrowing owl, Nevada sage-thrush, sagethrasher and special species of orioles, kangaroo rats, mice, rabbits and squirrels.

Its animal life is in the main distinguished in species only from that of the Upper Sonoran belt, including among birds, the desert sparrow, desert thrasher, mocking-bird, hooded oriole; and among mammals small nocturnal species of kangaroo rats, pocket mice, mice and bats.

Various species of small native mice and voles are abundant.

Sousliks feed on roots, seeds and berries, and occasionally on animal food, preying on eggs, small birds and mice.

Bancroft brings evidence to prove that the Mexicans supposed pregnant women would turn into beasts, and sleeping children into mice, if things went wrong in the ritual of a certain solemn sacrifice.

The mice are cared for by a team of highly-trained animal technicians fully apprised of the animals' needs.

Mice in the study that received treatment remained healthy for almost a year after untreated mice succumbed to the disease.

The infected fleas then fed on 15 mice that had been inoculated with the experimental vaccine containing an adjuvant (an immune booster ).

Furthermore, in mice we can model the phenomenon known as airway hyperresponsiveness, which is a feature of the asthmatic airway hyperresponsiveness, which is a feature of the asthmatic airway.

Trials on the regulation of IgE response in mice using modified birch pollen allergens.

This time, fully allogeneic CBA mice with the MHC haplotype H2 k were used as transplant recipients.

Twenty-eight days after intrathymic injection, the mice were transplanted with an H-2K b -positive, fully vascularised cardiac allograft.