Medical Terminology / Unit 3 MedTerm 0153 short lesson, about 20 seconds
mono- and uni-: One
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The idea
The prefixes mono and uni both mean one or single.
In practice
A mononuclear cell has one nucleus.
Where people slip
Mono is Greek and uni is Latin, and terms rarely accept both.
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