单词 | laboratory rat |
释义 | > as lemmaslaboratory rat C2. In the sense ‘designating an animal used for tests or experiments in a laboratory’, as laboratory animal, laboratory mouse, laboratory rat, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > [noun] laboratory animal?1891 the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [noun] > that which is experimented on or with > one who is experimented on experimenta1678 experimentized1832 experimentee1890 laboratory animal?1891 guinea pig1920 lab rat1979 ?1891 Proc. Amer. Soc. Microscopists 1890 12 132 (title) The intramuscular endings of fibers in the skeletal muscles of the domestic and laboratory animals. 1937 Nature 24 July 155/1 Among those using this fish as a ‘laboratory animal’. 1962 Listener 16 Aug. 258/2 An untrained laboratory worm which eats a trained one takes over its responses. 1976 Nature 15 Apr. 608/2 Our experimental group consisted of 100 male and female white laboratory mice. 1996 Times 20 May 16/4 Five particular strains of laboratory mice can be infected both with scrapie from sheep and with BSE from cows. 2001 A. Taylor Death's Own Door (2002) xlvi. 337 The environment was artificial and it made her feel like a laboratory rat. < as lemmas |
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