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Meaning of "monospecificity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MONOSPECIFICITY

monospecificity  [ˌmɒnəʊˌspesɪˈfɪsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOSPECIFICITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Monospecificity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONOSPECIFICITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Monospecificity

In zoology, "monospecific" is an adjective describing a genus which contains only one known species. The word is of hybrid origin, with the prefix coming from Ancient Greek: μονο- “single”, and Latin: species, "kind" or "type". Of the genera described in zoology, there are more monospecific genera than genera with any other individual number of species. Nevertheless, many genera originally considered monospecific, have been discovered to contain more than one species. Examples include Malapterurus the electric catfish and Loxodonta the African elephant. On the other hand, there are cases such as Pseudorinelepis where after an initial flurry of species descriptions a genus turns out to be monospecific. Zoologists instead use the term "monotypic" when referring to a higher taxon that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. For example, a family which contains a single genus is said to be monotypic, even if that genus comprises many species. In botany, "monotypic" or "unispecific" are more commonly used instead of "monospecific" to refer to a taxon – at any rank – that includes only one species.

Definition of monospecificity in the English dictionary

The definition of monospecificity in the dictionary is the condition of being specific for a sole antigen.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOSPECIFICITY


authenticity
ˌɔːθɛnˈtɪsɪtɪ
complicity
kəmˈplɪsɪtɪ
cytotoxicity
ˌsaɪtəʊtɒkˈsɪsɪtɪ
elasticity
ɪlæˈstɪsɪtɪ
electricity
ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
ethnicity
ɛθˈnɪsɪtɪ
felicity
fɪˈlɪsɪtɪ
hydroelectricity
ˌhaɪdrəʊɪlekˈtrɪsɪtɪ
hydrophobicity
ˌhaɪdrəfəʊˈbɪsɪtɪ
monotonicity
ˌmɒnəʊtɒˈnɪsɪtɪ
multiplicity
ˌmʌltɪˈplɪsɪtɪ
nephrotoxicity
ˌnefrəʊˌtɒkˈsɪsɪtɪ
periodicity
ˌpɪərɪəˈdɪsɪtɪ
plasticity
plæˈstɪsɪtɪ
prolificity
ˌprəʊlɪˈfɪsɪtɪ
publicity
pʌˈblɪsɪtɪ
simplicity
sɪmˈplɪsɪtɪ
specificity
ˌspesɪˈfɪsɪtɪ
synchronicity
ˌsɪnkrəˈnɪsɪtɪ
toxicity
tɒkˈsɪsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOSPECIFICITY

monoskiing
monosodium
monosodium dihydrogen orthophosphate
monosodium glutamate
monosome
monosomic
monosomy
monospaced
monospaced type
monospecific
monospermal
monospermous
monostable
monostele
monostelic
monostely
monostich
monostichic
monostichous
monostome

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOSPECIFICITY

antigenicity
automaticity
basicity
capacity
centricity
chronicity
concentricity
duplicity
eccentricity
ellipticity
helicity
historicity
hydrophilicity
mains electricity
modulus of elasticity
neurotoxicity
pathogenicity
sphericity
static electricity
teratogenicity
tonicity

Synonyms and antonyms of monospecificity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monospecificity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONOSPECIFICITY

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Translator English - Chinese

monospecificity
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monoespecificidad
570 millions of speakers

English

monospecificity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

monospecificity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

monospecificity
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

monospecificity
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monospecificity
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

monospecificity
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monospécificité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monospecificity
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Monospezifität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

単一特異性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

monospecificity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Monospecificity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

monospecificity
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

monospecificity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Monospecificity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

monospecificity
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monospecificity
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

monospecificity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

monospecificity
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

monospecificity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

monospecificity
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

monospecificity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monospecificity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

monospecificity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monospecificity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOSPECIFICITY»

The term «monospecificity» is barely ever used and occupies the 201.759 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOSPECIFICITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monospecificity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOSPECIFICITY»

Discover the use of monospecificity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monospecificity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vaccine Research and Development: |:
A special point that needs to be stressed is the high monospecificity produced by the polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies elicited by peptide immunogens with the MAP approach. The monospecificity may be due to the homogeneity of the ...
Koff, 1992
2
Regulated Bioanalytical Laboratories: Technical and ...
Monospecificity: Monospecificity is functionally defined as the immunoreactivity of an antiserum with its designated antigen (e.g., antihuman IgG, antihuman IgG Fc piece, human IgG3 Fc piece, etc.). In practice, true monospecificity to naturally ...
Michael Zhou, 2010
3
Seed Proteins
A. CONTROL OF THE MONOSPECIFICITY OF AN IMMUNE SERUM Usually the monospecificity of an immune serum is tested by using double diffusion, immunoelectrophoretic analysis or crossed Immunoelectrophoresis which have a certain ...
Jean Daussant, J. Mossé, John Griffith Vaughan, 1983
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Monoclonal Antibodies: Principles and Practice
Monospecificity,. Commitment. to. One. Light. Chain Type, and Allelic Exclusion The fact that the antibody gene rearrangements are orderly and monitored by the cell for productive expression ensures that the great majority of cells express a ...
James W. Goding, 1996
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Immunology and the Quest for an Hiv Vaccine: A New Perspective
Between the numerous lymphocytes, there is variation in structural formation. However, a particular individual lymphocyte only has receptors that are identical one to another. This is called monospecificity because these identical lymphocyte  ...
Dr Phd Bagasra, Donald Gene Phd Pace, 2012
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METHODS IN CELL BIOLOGY,VOLUME 21A: NORMAL HUMAN TISSUE AND ...
Antibodies prepared in rabbits were purified by cross-immunoabsorption ( Nowack et al., 1976), and monospecificity was verified by immunofluorescence radioimmunoassay and hemagglutination assays (Foidart et al., 1978; Yaoita et al., ...
Curtis C. Harris, Benjamin F. Trump, Gary D. Stoner, 1980
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The Immunogenetics of Autoimmune Diseases
... anti-DNA populations constitute distinct elements of the same autoimmune response at different steps of maturation, as if the progressive appearance of the antigenic monospecificity paralleled the disappearance of idiotypic recurrence.
Nadir R. Farid, 1990
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The immune system
The selective pressure for monospecificity arises only when the somatically selected self—nonself discrimination mechanism is required, and this is little more than mere tinkering. Although RNA splicing maintains the triplet codon reading ...
Rodney Langman, 1989
9
Molecular Analysis of B Lymphocyte Development and Activation
It has been argued that monospecificity prevents autoreactive B cells from escaping to the periphery. However, it has recently been demonstrated that the majority of initial specificities generated in the bone marrow are autoreactive and that ...
Harinder Singh, Rudolf Grosschedl, 2006
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New Concepts of Antiviral Therapy
5.3 PPKIs with twofold specificity for both, herpesviral and cellular protein kinases The selectivity of PPKIs in antiviral activity is a crucial point of drug development and in many cases the evidence for monospecificity of action is difficult to ...
Elke Bogner, Andreas Holzenburg, 2007

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Monospecificity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/monospecificity>. May 2024 ».
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