mice
Americannoun
noun
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Mice with blocked neuron activity became fatigued much sooner and failed to gain endurance during the two-week training period.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Mice have about 20 million olfactory neurons, each expressing one of more than a thousand receptor types.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026
They had a song for him, roughly to the tune of the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Mice with normal tuft cell function ate less as the infection progressed.
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026
Mice and woodlanders sat about on the stone floor of Great Hall, each creature with its own sorrowful thoughts.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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