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Wistar Med. and Biol.|ˈwɪstə(r), -ɑː(r)|
The name of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia (founded by I. J. Wistar (1827–1905), grandnephew of Caspar Wistar (see wistaria)), used attrib. to designate rats bred from a strain developed at the Institute for laboratory purposes.
1938Amer. Jrnl. Cancer XXXIV. 353 The Wistar rats used in this series were from the Experimental Colony strain of the Wistar Institute. 1956Nature 10 Mar. 453/2 One series of irradiated mice was injected with a suspension of bone-marrow cells of the Wistar rat. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXII. 28 This kind of preference is the same as has been found by Wagner..and Rowntree with Long-Evans and Wistar albino rats. |