NONHUMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonhuman mean? 

• NONHUMAN (adjective)
  The adjective NONHUMAN has 1 sense:

1. not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings

  Familiarity information: NONHUMAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONHUMAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings

Context example:

nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees

Similar:

anthropoid; anthropoidal; apelike (resembling apes)

bloodless (devoid of human emotion or feeling)

dehumanised; dehumanized; unhuman (divested of human qualities or attributes)

inhuman (belonging to or resembling something nonhuman)

Attribute:

humanity; humanness; manhood (the quality of being human)

Antonym:

human (having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings)

 Context examples 

Among the results, the researchers identified transcription patterns reflecting differences in cortical development between humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)

Moreover, their brain scans and autopsy studies of brains from nonhuman primates confirmed the results seen in humans, suggesting the lymphatic system is a common feature of mammalian brains.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)

While there have been age-related studies of great apes, the profound memory impairment found in Alzheimer's patients has not yet been demonstrated in nonhuman primates.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)

Design, identification, synthesis, extraction, purification, modification, or characterization of potential anticancer agents; studies of their metabolism, distribution, excretion, physiological effects, molecular interactions, structural analysis, toxicity, mechanism of action, antitumor effects in vivo (nonhuman species) or in vitro (human or nonhuman), and phase I and phase II clinical trials.

(Drug Development, NCI Thesaurus)

Specific regions of the neocortex are also known to differ greatly between humans and nonhuman primates.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)