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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Pl. musculi (-lī). In anatomy, a muscle.
  • noun [capitalized] In zoology:
  • noun A genus of mice, of which Mus musculus is the type: same as Mus.
  • noun A term in use among the conchologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for various bivalve shells, as Panopæa, Unionidæ, Cyrenidæ. Mytilidæ, etc.
  • noun A genus of brachiopods of the family Terebratulidæ.

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  • noun one of the contractile organs of the body

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Examples

  • [13] also appears to have recognised these muscles, which he called the musculus cruciatus prothoracis.

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  • One behavioral ecologist who has done some very interesting work with Mus musculus is Wayne Potts, at the University of Utah.

    Demarcation as Politics 2006

  • This idea was passed on to the ancient Romans, who coined the word musculus, "little mouse."

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  • Hence the muscle which everts the lower lip has been called the musculus superbus.

    The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

  • Among the completely sequenced bilaterian genomes, only the vertebrates have a higher number of SOX genes (e.g., 20 genes in H. sapiens and M. musculus, 24 genes in F. rubripes).

    As Expected 2008

  • Here we show that house mice Mus musculus domesticus on Madeira have an unexpected chromosomal diversity, the evolution of which is independent of adaptive processes, relying instead on geographic isolation and genetic drift. harold

    The Rise of Human Chromosome 2: Beyond the Deme - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • House mice (Mus musculus domesticus) in Tunisia consists of two races, one carries the 40-acrocentric standard karyotypes and the other one is a robertsonian race (2n=22) homozygous for nine centric fusions (Rb).

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  • In addition, recent observations indicate the arrival of the mouse, Mus musculus.

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  • It includes plants and animal species truly exotic to most regions of the Arctic and subarctic, such as the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), house mouse (Mus musculus), and Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) that have inadvertently been introduced by humans.

    Management and conservation of wildlife in the Arctic 2009

  • It includes plants and animal species truly exotic to most regions of the Arctic and subarctic, such as the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), house mouse (Mus musculus), and Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) that have inadvertently been introduced by humans.

    Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Arctic 2009

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