mononucleatedadj.

1890 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 30 490 Large mononucleated cells are seen lying scattered between the lymphocytes.

1907 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 79 551 It might at first appear as if these large mononucleated cells and giant cell masses were really epithelial cells.

1945 Nature 7 Apr. 427/2 The accompanying photomicrograph..shows a metaphase plate in a mononucleated bone marrow cell.

1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xxxvi. 502 Hyphae may or may not present cross walls or septa which define the boundaries of individual mononucleated cells within each hypha.

1930 W. S. Thompson Population Probl. xvi. 279 The modern city..always has one nucleus which is far more important than any of the others and indeed as a rule it has a ‘downtown’ area in which are congregated most of the important offices, stores, hotels, amusements, and public buildings... Why have our modern large cities assumed this mononucleated form?

1938 L. Mumford Culture of Cities vii. 489 Under this mode of design, the planner proposes to replace the ‘mono-nucleated city’, as Professor Warren Thompson has called it, with a new type of ‘poly-nucleated city’, in which a cluster of communities, adequately spaced and bounded, shall do duty for the badly organized mass city.