What is Mono?

Question

I am from the UK and always here about 'mono' on american shows and films, what is it? sorry I know it sounds dumb but had to ask.

I am talking about the 'Kissing disease' not the sound format

Answer 1

The disease whose medical name is infectious mononucleosis is most common in people 10 to 35 years old, with its peak incidence in those 15 to 17 years old. Only 50 people out of 100,000 in the general population get mono, but it strikes as many as 2 out of 1,000 teens and twenty-somethings, especially those in high school, college, and the military. While mono is not usually considered a serious illness, it may have serious complications. Without a doubt your lifestyle will change for a few months.

You've probably heard people call mono the "kissing disease." But if your social life is in a slump, you may wonder, "How did I get this 'kissing disease' when I haven't kissed anyone romantically recently?"

Here's how. Mono is usually transmitted though saliva and mucus--which is where the "kissing disease" nickname comes from. But the kissing or close contact that transmits the disease doesn't happen right before you get sick. The virus that causes mono has a long incubation period: 30 to 50 days from the time you're exposed to it to the time you get sick. In addition, the virus can be transmitted in other ways, such as sipping from the same straw or glass as an infected person--or even being close when the person coughs or sneezes. Also, some people can have the virus in their systems without ever having symptoms and you can still catch it from them.

Two viruses can cause mono: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV). Both viruses are in the herpes family, whose other members include viruses responsible for cold sores and chickenpox.

EBV causes 85 percent of mono cases. About half of all children are infected with EBV before they're 5, but at that young age, it usually doesn't cause any symptoms. If you don't become infected with EBV until you're a teen or older, you're more likely to develop mono symptoms. After you're infected, the virus stays with you for life, but usually doesn't cause any additional symptoms. Still, every now and then you may produce viral particles in your saliva that can transmit the virus to other people, even though you feel perfectly fine. By age 40, 85 to 90 percent of Americans have EBV antibodies, indicating they have the virus in their systems and are immune to further EBV infection.

CMV is also a very common virus. About 85 percent of the U.S. population is infected with it by the time they reach adulthood. As with EBV, CMV is frequently symptomless, and mono most often results when infection occurs in the teens and 20s. Sore throat is less common in people who have CMV mono than in those infected with EBV.

Answer 2

It's a sound format....mono or stereo sound..

MONO

Before there was digital anything, there was MONO. This is sound channeled to a single speaker. It would be as though you would have only one ear to listen with. Great for AM radio broadcasts, kind of boring for Home Theatre.

Answer 3

mono is an infection... myth that it is associated with kissing. i caught mono in college and was in the hospital 1.5 weeks recovering. swells your lymph nodes and in extreme cases like mine, your liver becomes inflamed and you produce large quantities of bilirubin which make your urine dark brown.

Answer 4

Mono is also called the kissing desease and it sucks, my girlfriend got it back when she dated guys... its not fun at all

Answer 5

You are probably refering tro the disease mononucleosis. It is a disease spread by contact with the saliva of someone who has it. Also known as the kissing disease although that is hardly the only way to get it.

Answer 6

It's decidedly not stereo, that's for sure and long before digital;-)

Answer 7

mothe deises from kissing to much or from being sick then kissing some1 else

Answer 8

Mononucleosis. a mouth disease.

Answer 9

1) Monophonic sound. One channel.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=0&oi=define&q=http://www.hometheatermag.com/glossary/

2) Monophonic Sound Reproduction. Both audio channels are taken from the tape and mixed together into a single track, using equal amounts of audio channels 1 and 2. Only one channel appears with the clip in Final Cut Pro.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=1&oi=define&q=http://www.brynmawr.edu/filmstudies/writing/glossary.html

3) a single-channel audio track
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=2&oi=define&q=http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/11091701

4) Prefix denoting single.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=3&oi=define&q=http://www.bdid.com/termsm.htm

5) (Pre) One, single
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=4&oi=define&q=http://www.gastrolab.net/dictem.htm

6) Meaning not one- single but, one as in type.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=5&oi=define&q=http://www.pkwsonline.com/glossary.html

7) short for monofilament.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=6&oi=define&q=http://www.riversmallies.com/glossary.html

8) The disc contains a mono sound track only.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=7&oi=define&q=http://www.dvdaust.com/glossary_of_terms.htm

9) The movies’ sound is being emited through one audio channel.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=8&oi=define&q=http://www.dvdmagnet.com/help/explanations.htm

10) An output device which can only show one colour, though possibly in several shades. Monochrome printers and some screens tend to be black- and-white.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=9&oi=define&q=http://www.agocg.ac.uk/reports/graphics/34/appii97/glossary.htm

11) vision A procedure where one eye is focused for near vision and the other eye is used for far vision.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=10&oi=define&q=http://101-contact-lenses.com/Lasik-Glossary.htm

12) A single channel of sound recorded from a single point and replayed through a single amp and speaker.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=11&oi=define&q=http://www.samsung.com.au/myguide/about/glos001.asp%3Fshow%3DM

13) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel
14) infectious mononucleosis: an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=12&oi=define&q=http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn%3Fs%3Dmono

15) A numerical prefix is a prefix that denotes a number, which is usually a multiplier for the thing being prefixed. Numerical prefixes are usually derived from the words for numbers in various languages, most commonly Greek and Latin, although this is not necessarily the case.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=14&oi=define&q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono-

16) Mono was a British pop duo which became a one-hit wonder in the late 1990s with their song "Life in Mono". The group is considered electronica or more specifically "trip hop" and Mono's music shares some similarities with other such acts including Sneaker Pimps and Portishead.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=15&oi=define&q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(band)

17) Mono is the name of an open source project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an ECMA Standard compliant (Ecma-334 and Ecma-335), .NET compatible set of tools, including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime and more. Mono can be run on GNU/Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows based computers.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=16&oi=define&q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(Ximian)

Answer 10

the opposite to stereo