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mouse

[mous, mouz] / maʊs, maʊz /
NOUN
rodent
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Using Connectome-seq, the team mapped more than 1,000 neurons in a mouse brain circuit known as the pontocerebellar circuit, which links two brain regions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Before the iPhone, Apple shook up home computing with the 1984 Macintosh, whose icon-based interface and mouse made computing accessible beyond specialists -- and sparked a legendary rivalry between Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

The group used liquid nitrogen to rapidly cool mouse brain tissue to minus 196 degrees Celsius, then kept it in a minus-150-degree-Celsius freezer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He clicked the mouse on a window displaying several lines of Smalltalk code, made a minor edit, and returned to the text.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

He liked the name Jerry, because it was the same as that funny mouse in the old cartoons, the one who always outsmarted the cat.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold