a. [UNI- 1.] Having, or characterized by, one nucleus.
1882. Vines, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 946. Treub … has observed the division of the nucleus … and finds that it takes place in the manner described … for uninuclear cells.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 71. In the boundary zone away from the cocci the uninuclear form [of leucocyte] predominated.
So Uninucleate, Uninucleated adjs.
1885. E. Ray Lankester, in Encycl. Brit., XIX. 862/1. Young uninucleate individual which has emerged from the cyst within the Tadpole, and will now multiply its nuclei.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 636. There are present in the blood numerous large uninucleated cells.
