单词 | monovular |
释义 | monovularadj. Biology and Medicine. 1. Producing one ovum (per follicle or oestrous cycle). ΚΠ 1906 Science 21 Dec. 817/2 Cuenot (1903)..has found that with the species [of armadillo] studied..the monovular follicles are twenty times more numerous than the pluriovular follicles. 1969 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 38 637 The females [of Schoinobates volans] are polyoestrous and monovular. 1978 Jrnl. Reprod. & Fertility 52 37 In monovular animals it might be expected that transport of spermatozoa to the non-ovulating side would be reduced in favour of the ovulating side. 2001 Biol. of Reprod. 65 638 Follicle deviation is proposed to be the eminent event in follicle selection in monovular species. 2. Derived from a single (fertilized) ovum; = monozygotic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > zygote or syngamete > monozygosity, etc. binovular1900 uniovular1904 heterozygotic1911 monozygotic1916 one-egg1921 homozygotic1927 dizygotic1930 monozygous1931 monovular1932 dizygous1940 monozygote1955 two-egg1959 1932 E. Allen Sex & Internal Secretions v. 221 Monovular twins in man and quadruplets in the armadillo always are of identical sex. 1936 Yale Jrnl. Biol. & Med. 8 589 We think of human monovular twins as having identically the same inheritance and as being so similar in height, weight, build, appearance, and mentality as to confuse relatives and friends. 1966 Arch. Surg. 92 865/1 The occurrence of Hashimoto's thyroiditis in a mother and her three daughters, two of whom are monovular twins. 2001 Teratology 63 94 Caudal duplication is a spectrum of rare congenital anomalies with a possible heterogeneous pathogenesis including incomplete separation of monovular twins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1906 |
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