monozygoten.adj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈzʌɪɡəʊt/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˈzaɪˌɡoʊt/ Biology and Medicine.
A. n.
A monozygotic twin (or triplet, etc.); = monozygotic n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > zygote or syngamete > monozygosity, etc. > individual
monozygotic1926
monozygote1929
1929 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 92 109 Diagnosis of monozygotes was made by likeness in the shape of the ear, and in fingerprints, as well as in general likeness so close as to cause confusion.
1963 Science 13 Dec. 1437/2 This makes vanishingly small the chances that even siblings (other than monozygotes) will be genetically identical.
1989 C. Fuentes & A. MacAdam tr. C. Fuentes Christopher Unborn (1990) v. vi. 241 The first things we feel, even as mere monozygotes [Sp. monozigote] inside the maternal womb, are the fluctuations in the exterior dynamics that surround us.
1993 Amer. Rev. Respiratory Dis. 147 1192 We conducted a twin study using healthy adult pairs (10 monozygotes, MZ, and 9 dizygotes, DZ).
B. adj.
= monozygotic adj.
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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
1955 Amer. Naturalist 89 61 Monozygote twins in cattle.
1980 Danish Med. Bull. 27 273/1 Pointing towards a genetically determined origin of IS [= infantile spasms] are the observations of the two pairs of twins in which both monozygote twins, but only one dizygote twin contracted IS.
1995 Ann. Human Biol. 22 289 Thirty pairs of monozygote (MZ) twins..were examined.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1929