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Mononoke the Movie: The Curse of the Serpent
Mononoke the Movie: The Curse of the Serpent (劇場版モノノ怪 第三章 蛇神, Hebigami) is a 2026 Japanese anime horror film, the final chapter of the Ōoku trilogy, directed by Tomoaki Koshida with chief director Kenji Nakamura, released in Japan May 29, 2026 and on Netflix worldwide September 29, 2026.
Mononuclear cell of bone marrow
Mononuclear cell of bone marrow (CL:0010004, bone marrow mononuclear cell, BMMNC): single-nucleus marrow leukocyte fraction containing T cells, B cells, monocytes, and rare progenitors; isolated by Ficoll density gradient and used in cell therapy trials for stroke, limb ischemia, and heart disease.
Mononuclear leukocyte
Mononuclear leukocyte (mononuclear cell, CL:0000842): a white blood cell with a single non-segmented nucleus, comprising lymphocytes and monocytes, distinguished from granulocytes and isolated as PBMCs by density gradient centrifugation.
Mononuclear phagocyte
Mononuclear phagocyte: single-nucleus vertebrate phagocyte (CL:0000113) comprising monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system, defined 1969-1972, replacing the reticuloendothelial system.
Mononuclear phagocyte system sequestration
Mononuclear phagocyte system sequestration is the capture of intravenously injected nanoparticles by macrophages of the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes, limiting nanomedicine delivery to tumors.
Mononucleosis due to cytomegalovirus
Mononucleosis due to cytomegalovirus (CMV mononucleosis, ICD-11 1D81.1) is a heterophile-negative, EBV-like infectious mononucleosis syndrome in immunocompetent adults, diagnosed by CMV IgM serology and usually self-limited without antiviral treatment.
Mononucleosis due to Epstein-Barr virus
Mononucleosis due to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV, human herpesvirus 4), also called mono or glandular fever: a fever-pharyngitis-lymphadenopathy syndrome in adolescents, diagnosed by heterophile or EBV serology, treated supportively.
Mononym
Mononym: a single name by which a person or thing is known; a mononymous person. Covers etymology, ancient single-name traditions, celebrity mononyms (Bono, Teller), and legal identification issues.
Monooxygenase
A monooxygenase is an enzyme that inserts one atom of molecular oxygen into an organic substrate while reducing the second atom to water, using cofactors such as NAD(P)H.
Monophyly
Monophyly: property of a group containing a common ancestor and all its descendants (a clade), contrasted with paraphyly and polyphyly. Central to Hennig's cladistics and modern biological taxonomy.
Monophysitism
Monophysitism is the label for the Christological position that Jesus Christ has only one nature, condemned at the Council of Chalcedon in 451; the Oriental Orthodox churches contest the term.
Monopile foundation
A monopile foundation is a single large-diameter steel tube driven into the seabed to support an offshore wind turbine, accounting for about 80 percent of installed offshore wind capacity worldwide.
Monopisthocotylea
Monopisthocotylea (Odhner, 1912) is one of two monogenean flatworm subgroups, ectoparasites of fish gills and skin; tissue-grazing, haptor-bearing worms including Dactylogyrus, Gyrodactylus, and capsalids, with disputed Monogenea monophyly.
Monoplacophora
Monoplacophora (Tryblidia) is a class of small deep-sea molluscs with a single caplike shell and serially repeated gills, kidneys, and muscles. Thought extinct since the Devonian, living Neopilina was dredged off Costa Rica in 1952; genomes place it sister to other Conchifera.
Monopole antenna
A monopole antenna is a radio antenna consisting of one half of a dipole, typically a quarter-wave vertical wire mounted over a conducting ground plane, used in mobile communications and vehicle radios.
Monopolistic competition
Monopolistic competition is a market structure in which many firms sell differentiated products, so each has some price-setting power, while free entry drives long-run profits to zero.
Monopoly
A monopoly is a market supplied by a single firm, which can set price above marginal cost; in antitrust law it is a status proven market by market.
Monopoly (game)
Monopoly is Hasbro's property-trading board game, sold by Parker Brothers from November 5, 1935. It grew from Elizabeth Magie's 1904 The Landlord's Game, a Georgist critique of land monopoly, which Charles Darrow adapted and sold in 1935.
Monopoly Go!
Monopoly Go! (MONOPOLY GO!) is Scopely and Hasbro's free-to-play mobile dice and sticker game launched April 2023; it passed $6 billion lifetime revenue in 2025 with 10M+ daily players.
Monopoly Junior
Monopoly Junior is Hasbro's simplified Monopoly for ages 5 and up, 2-4 players, set in Monopoly Town with kid-friendly properties, no auctions or trading, and two play levels.
Monopoly on violence
Monopoly on violence: Weber's 1919 definition of the state as the sole legitimate user of physical force in a territory; covers its origins, state-building, and challenges from private security and fragile states.
Monopoly pricing
Monopoly pricing is the setting of price by a single seller, who produces where marginal revenue equals marginal cost and charges a price above marginal cost.
Monopotassium phosphate
Monopotassium phosphate, also called potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP), is the water-soluble salt KH2PO4, a chloride-free fertilizer, food additive E 340(i), buffering agent, and nonlinear optical crystal in the National Ignition Facility.
Monoprotected amino acid ligands for enantioselective C–H activation
Chiral mono-N-protected amino acid (MPAA) ligands are bidentate ligands for palladium(II)-catalyzed asymmetric C–H activation, introduced in 2008 by Jin-Quan Yu's laboratory for enantioselective C(sp²)–H alkylation.
Monopsony
Monopsony is a market structure in which a single buyer faces many sellers and pays less than the competitive price, the mirror image of monopoly.
Monopterus albus
Monopterus albus, the Asian swamp eel or rice-field eel (鳝鱼), is an air-breathing synbranchid fish of Asia, a major Chinese aquaculture species, a protogynous sex-reversing vertebrate, and a High-risk U.S. invasive established in Florida, Georgia, and Hawaii.
Monopulse radar
Monopulse radar is a tracking technique that determines a target's angular position, in two dimensions, from a single pulse by comparing signals received in simultaneous antenna beams.
Monorail
A monorail is a railway in which vehicles run on or hang from a single beam, usually elevated, in straddle or suspended forms, from airport shuttles to urban transit like the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
Monorepo
A monorepo is a software-engineering practice in which multiple projects and shared libraries share a single version-control repository, used at scale by Google and Meta.
Monosaccharide
A monosaccharide, also called a simple sugar or simple carbohydrate, is the simplest carbohydrate, a single sugar unit that cannot be hydrolyzed into smaller sugars.