muricide

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin mūs +‎ -icide.

Noun[edit]

muricide (uncountable)

  1. mouse-killing in rats.
    • 1977, Israel Hanin, Earl Usdin, Animal Models in Psychiatry and Neurology:
      The mechanism of muricide behavior probably involves a discrete area of the brain, the amygdala.
    • 1984, Stephen T Mason, Catecholamines and Behaviour:
      This was generally supported by Banerjee (1974) who found that two injections of 200 ng 6-OHDA intraventricularly failed to reduce muricide in rats […]

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