Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having or proceeding from a single center.
  • In anatomy, unipolar: applied to a rete mirabile which is not gathered again into a single trunk: opposed to amphicentric.

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Examples

  • Metro was programmed when Washington was fairly monocentric.

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  • Metro was programmed when Washington was fairly monocentric.

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  • The new study, which was monocentric, randomized, placebo controlled in parallel double-blind in design, involved 60 overweight women who took 400mg of ID-alG a day for two months.

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  • What has been described as urban sprawl is perhaps best understood as a time of transition from the monocentric metropolitan areas of the early twentieth century to the interrelated trading place metropolitan areas of the twenty-first century.

    New York Sun - All Articles 2009

  • - CLI-107-04: a monocentric Phase I interpatient dose escalation non-controlled study in oncology (metastatic melanoma or renal cell carcinoma), conducted at the US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • - CLI-107-08: a monocentric Phase I interpatient dose escalation non-controlled study in recipients of HLA matched ex-vivo T-cell depleted bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplant to restore CD4+ and CD8+ counts following T-cell depletion, conducted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • The study contains a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled part and is being conducted as a monocentric trial in Switzerland.

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