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MACAQUE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("macaque" is a kind of...):

catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "macaque"):

Macaca mulatta; rhesus; rhesus monkey (of southern Asia; used in medical research)

bonnet macaque; bonnet monkey; capped macaque; crown monkey; Macaca radiata (Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair)

Barbary ape; Macaca sylvana (tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar)

crab-eating macaque; croo monkey; Macaca irus (monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines)

Holonyms ("macaque" is a member of...):

genus Macaca; Macaca (macaques; rhesus monkeys)

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 Context examples: 

A macaque, Macaca fascicularis (M. cynomolgus), found mostly in southeastern Asia, Borneo, and the Philippines.

(Cynomolgus Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists have developed an investigational vaccine that protected cynomolgus macaques against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruses endemic to overlapping regions in Africa.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

Six months after vaccination, the researchers exposed groups of vaccinated rhesus macaques (immunized via ID, AE or IV routes) and a group of unvaccinated macaques to a virulent strain of Mtb by introducing the bacteria directly into the animals’ lungs.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)

The macaque, Macaca fascicularis.

(Cynomolgus Monkey, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Researchers screened tissues for prion disease using several tests and found no clinical, pathological or biochemical evidence suggesting that CWD was transmitted to macaques.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)

In contrast, the macaque’s experience of the visual world is probably very similar to our own.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

The scientists also attempted to clone macaques using nuclei from adult donors.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

This macaque also has forward directed eyes that allow for binocular vision.

(Cynomolgus Maritius Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

Collaborators administered a lethal dose of Zaire ebolavirus to 4 rhesus macaques, then treated 3 of the animals, beginning a day later, with a mixture of the mAbs for 3 consecutive days.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

Now, researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and their colleagues have shown that simply changing the dose and route of administration from intradermal (ID) to intravenous (IV) greatly increases the vaccine’s ability to protect rhesus macaques from infection following exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes TB.

(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)