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monographical

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mon⋅o⋅graph

  [mon-uh-graf, -grahf]
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–noun
1. a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
2. a highly detailed and thoroughly documented study or paper written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: scholarly monographs on medieval pigments.
3. an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism.
–verb (used with object)
4. to write a monograph about.
Origin:
1815–25; mono- + -graph

Related forms:
mo⋅nog⋅ra⋅pher  [muh-nog-ruh-fer] , mo⋅nog⋅ra⋅phist, noun
mon⋅o⋅graph⋅ic  [mon-uh-graf-ik] , mon⋅o⋅graph⋅i⋅cal, adjective
mon⋅o⋅graph⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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Word Origin & History

monograph 
1821, "treatise on a single subject," from mono- + graph "something written."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: mono·graph
Pronunciation: 'män-&-"graf
Function: noun
1 : a learned detailed thoroughly documented treatise coveringexhaustively a small area of a field of learning monograph covers the development of intravenous anesthesia from 1872 —Journal of the American Medical Association>
2 : a description (as in the U.S. Pharmacopeia) of the name, chemical formula, and uniform method for determining the strength and purity of a drug —monograph transitive verb
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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