muricide
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]muricide (uncountable)
- 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 […]