(of twins) derived from a single fertilized ovum, and so identical
Word origin
C20
Examples of 'monozygous' in a sentence
monozygous
Thirty-six monozygous twin pairs were evaluated at the corrected age of 12 to 42 months.
R.K. Reolon, N.T. Rotta, M. Agranonik, A.A. Moura da Silva, M.Z. Goldani 2008, 'Influence of intrauterine and extrauterine growth on neurodevelopmental outcome ofmonozygotic twins', Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Researchhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2008000800010. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These two cases suggest that immunosuppression can be withdrawn safely and rapidly in select monozygous identical twin renal transplant recipients.
Idris Yakubu, Abdolreza Haririan, Stephen Bartlett, Tracy Sparkes 2018, 'Successful Renal Transplantation between Identical Twins with Very Brief Immunosuppression',Case Reports in Transplantationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9842893. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)