Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
animal model Function:
noun : an animal sufficiently like humans in its anatomy, physiology, or response to a pathogen to be used in medical research in orderto obtain results that can be extrapolated to human medicine;
also : a pathological or physiological condition that occurs in such an animal and is similar (as in its pathology orphysiology) to a human condition
animal model in the study of multiple sclerosis in humans>
