cynomolgus monkey

noun

: crab-eating macaque

Note: The name cynomolgus monkey is used especially in referring to this monkey when used in medical research.

Not long ago neurobiologists at Rockefeller University installed a glass plate in the skull of an anesthetized cynomolgus monkey. Discover

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The high contribution from the donor stem cells the research achieved is what gave the infant cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) a strange green tinge. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023 The term resurfaced most recently after news broke that a team of researchers had created human-monkey chimeras by inserting human stem cells into cynomolgus monkey embryos at a very early stage of development. Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, alteration of cynamolgus, from Latin, member of an ancient tribe in Africa, from Greek Kynamolgoi, literally, dog milkers

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cynomolgus monkey was in 1936

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“Cynomolgus monkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cynomolgus%20monkey. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.

Medical Definition

cynomolgus monkey

noun
: a macaque (Macaca fascicularis synonym M. cynomolgus) of southeastern Asia, Borneo, and the Philippines that is often used in medical research
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