INBRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inbred mean? 

• INBRED (adjective)
  The adjective INBRED has 2 senses:

1. produced by inbreeding

2. normally existing at birth

  Familiarity information: INBRED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INBRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produced by inbreeding

Similar:

interbred (bred of closely related parents)

Antonym:

outbred (bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Normally existing at birth

Synonyms:

connatural; inborn; inbred

Context example:

mankind's connatural sense of the good

Similar:

native (belonging to one by birth)

 Context examples 

The Genetic Monitoring Facility functions to protect the genetic integrity of the inbred strains and transgenic lines of rodents utilized in the various research programs at Fox Chase.

(Laboratory Animal Genetic Monitoring Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

An inbred mouse strain developed by JT Webster in 1932.

(LT Webster 1932, NCI Thesaurus)

The use of the same name in the 2 species seems appropriate because of highly similar histologic, cytologic, phenotypic, and molecular features; Occurrence: Uncommon spontaneous neoplasm of inbred mice.

(Mouse Precursor B Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma and Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A family of the order Rodentia containing 250 genera including the two genera Mus and Rattus, from which the laboratory inbred strains are developed.

(Muridae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A melanin-forming tumor that arose spontaneously in a non-inbred mouse, and that is transplantable to mice of many strains but does not ordinarily metastasize.

(Harding-Passey Malignant Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The congenic strain and the inbred partner are expected to be identical at all loci except for the transferred locus and a linked segment of chromosome.

(Congenic Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived by Little (1921) from A Lathrop stocks and separated out before 1937, the C57BL/6 mouse has a black coat and is one of the most widely used inbred strains.

(C57BL/6 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

It was intensely inbred by N. Goto in 1978 from a single Carworth pair, the progeny of which is used today.

(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

An inbred strain of miniature swine developed by Sachs et al at the NIH in 1976 from a cross between a Hormel pig and a Vita Vet miniature pig.

(NIH Minipig, NCI Thesaurus)

An inbred mouse strain that arose in a non-inbred hairless stock maintained by Hummel in 1960; maintained by Le.

(ATEB/Le Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)