monofactorialadj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)fakˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəfækˈtɔriəl/ Biology and Medicine.
Originally: = monogenic adj.2 Later chiefly: involving or dependent upon a single factor or cause.
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monofactorial1920
monogenic1921
polygenic1928
multigenic1933
additive1936
oligogenic1943
X-linked1949
Y-linked1949
multigene1954
structural gene1959
orthologous1970
paralogous1970
1920 Amer. Naturalist 54 374 We found a very clear monofactorial Mendelian segregation in F2.
1933 Q. Rev. Biol. 8 336/1 These results might suggest a monofactorial difference between resistance and susceptibility.
1951 Ecology 32 683/2 This challenge..to the lack of logic in the mono-factorial nomenclature was never accepted.
1962 Current Anthropol. 3 40/1 Multifactorial features are more valuable in historical studies than monofactorial ones.
1967 Amer. Midland Naturalist 78 411 The physiological interactions of acute exposure to ionizing gamma radiation, high temperatures, and drought were investigated through a trifactorial experiment to obtain a more ecologically valid picture than could be obtained by monofactorial experiments.
1970 Nature 22 Aug. 806/1 Albinism is monofactorial and is recessive to wild type pigmentation.
1990 Cancer 65 1867 Monofactorial analysis identified the following factors to be correlated with increased risk.
2001 Internat. Jrnl. Food Microbiol. 55 175 A first drawback of conventional models is their monofactorial nature: only temperature is considered for the evaluation of microbial heat resistance.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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