English words: myocastorid to myotilin
300 English words, part 157 of 159 of the words starting with M, A to Z. 15 have a page of their own.
English words myocastorid to myotilin
- myocastorid noun: Any rodent in the family Myocastoridae; a nutria or coypu.
- myocele noun: A muscular hernia
- myocellular adjective: Relating to muscle cells
- myocentric adjective: Considered from the point-of-view of muscle tissue, typically that of the jaw
- myocerebral adjective: Relating to, or affecting the muscles and the brain
- myocerebrohepatopathy noun: myocerebral hepatopathy
- myochamid noun: Any clam in the family Myochamidae.
- myochrome noun: myoglobin
- myocilin noun: Any of a class of proteins, normally secreted into the aqueous humor of the eye, that sometimes accumulate to cause glaucoma.
- myoclonal adjective: Relating to myoclonus
- myoclonia noun: Any medical condition characterized by myoclonus.
- myoclonic adjective: Of or pertaining to myoclonus; consisting of or characterized by sudden jerking motions.
- myoclonus noun /ˌmaɪoʊˈkloʊnəs/: The brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or group of muscles.
- myocomma noun: A myotome
- myocommatal adjective: Relating to myocommas
- myoconjunctival adjective: That connects to a muscle
- myocontractile adjective: Relating to, or causing muscle contraction
- myocontrol noun: control of the muscles
- myocontrolled adjective: controlled by a muscle
- myocoptid noun: Any mite of the family Myocoptidae
- myoctonine noun: A highly poisonous alkaloid from the plant Aconitum lycoctonum, resembling curare in its action.
- myocutaneous adjective: Relating to or composed of muscle and skin.
- myocytal adjective: myocytic
- myocyte noun: A single muscle fiber cell.
- myocytic adjective: Relating to myocytes.
- myocytokine noun: Alternative form of myokine.
- myocytolysis noun: A degenerative change (often reversible) that occurs to myocytes upon myocardial strain.
- myocytopathic adjective: cytopathic to myocytes
- myocytoskeletal adjective: Relating to the cytoskeleton of muscle tissue
- myocytotoxic adjective: Cytotoxic to muscle tissue.
- myodegeneration noun: muscle degeneration
- myodegenerative adjective: Relating to, or causing myodegeneration
- myodesis noun: The securing of a muscle or tendon to the bone via sutures passed through small holes drilled in the bone.
- myodesopsia noun: The perception of floaters in the vitreous humour.
- myodifferentiation noun: The differentiation of muscle tissue
- myodocopan noun: Synonym of myodocopid.
- myodocopid noun: Any ostracod of the order Myodocopida
- myodome noun: A cavity in the skull of teleosts containing the recti of the eye
- myodont noun: Any rodent of the infraorder Myodonta.
- myodural adjective: Relating to muscle and the dura mater
- myodynamia noun: Muscular strength.
- myodynamics noun: The part of physiology related the principles of muscular contraction and forces.
- myodynamometer noun: An instrument for measuring muscular strength.
- myodystonia noun: Any general disorder of muscular tone
- myodystony noun: The relaxation of a muscle following electrical stimulation
- myodystrophic adjective: Relating to myodystrophy
- myodystrophy noun: muscular dystrophy
- myoelastic adjective: Relating to the movement of the muscles that position the vocal folds and are thus involved in phonation.
- myoelastofibrosis noun: elastofibrosis of muscle tissue
- myoelectric adjective: Using, or pertaining to, myoelectricity
- myoelectrical adjective: Relating to myoelectricity.
- myoelectrically adverb: By means of myoelectricity.
- myoelectricity noun: The electrical activity of skeletal muscles
- myoencephalopathy noun: Synonym of MERRF syndrome.
- myoendocardial adjective: Relating to the myocardium and the endocardium.
- myoendocarditis noun: Inflammation of both the myocardium and the endocardium.
- myoendocrine adjective: Describing endocrine cells that contain contractile fibres.
- myoendometrial adjective: Relating to the myoendometrium
- myoendothelial adjective: Of or pertaining to the myoendothelium
- myoendothelium noun: The endothelial cells of the myocardium
- myoenteric adjective: Alternative form of myenteric.
- myoenteropexy noun: Fixation of the muscular layer of the intestine to surrounding tissues.
- myoepicardial adjective: Relating to the muscular tissue of the epicardium
- myoepithelial adjective: Of or pertaining to the myoepithelium
- myoepithelioma noun: A benign tumour composed of myoepithelial cells
- myoepitheliomatous adjective: Relating to a myoepithelioma.
- myoepithelium noun: A group of cells usually found in glandular epithelium as a thin layer above the basement membrane but generally beneath the luminal cells
- myofascia noun: The stiff covering of muscles and bones
- myofascial adjective: Of or relating to the layer of loose tissue (fascia) surrounding the muscle tissues.
- myofascial decompression noun: Synonym of cupping (the East Asian practise of forming a vacuum underneath a cup that will break the surface capillaries of the skin under the cup, to treat...
- myofascial release noun: A soft tissue therapy that attempts to treat skeletal muscle immobility and pain by stretching the fascia.
- myofasciitis noun: A disease of muscle characterised by infiltration of macrophages
- myoferlin noun: A protein that is linked with skeletal muscle repair.
- myofiber noun: Synonym of muscle fiber.
- myofibre noun: Alternative spelling of myofiber.
- myofibril noun: Any of the cylindrical organelles, found within muscle cells, that are the contractile unit of muscles.
- myofibrillar adjective: Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
- myofibrillary adjective: Relating to the myofibrils; myofibrillar.
- myofibrillogenesis noun: The generation of myofibrils.
- myofibrilogenesis noun: Alternative form of myofibrillogenesis.
- myofibroblast noun: A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle
- myofibroblastic adjective: Relating to myofibroblasts
- myofibroblastoid adjective: Relating to myofibroblasts or to myofibroblastomas
- myofibroblastoma noun: A fibroblastoma associated with muscle tissue
- myofibrocyte noun: A type of fibrocyte found in muscle tissue
- myofibrogenesis noun: myofibrous fibrogenesis
- myofibrogenic adjective: Relating to the generation of myofiber
- myofibroma noun: A fibroma in muscle tissue
- myofibromatosis noun: fibromatosis that affects muscle tissue
- myofibrosarcoma noun: A malignant tumour of myofibroblasts.
- myofibrosis noun: fibrosis of muscle tissue
- myofibrotic adjective: Relating to myofibrosis
- myofibrous adjective: Relating to myofiber.
- myofilament noun /maɪ.oʊˈfɪləmənt/: A filament within a myofibril, constructed from proteins
- myofilamentary adjective: Relating to or composed of myofilaments.
- myofilamentous adjective: Relating to or composed of myofilaments.
- myofunction noun: The function of a particular muscle
- myofunctional adjective: Relating to muscle function.
- myofusion noun: The fusion of myoblasts
- MYOG phrase: Initialism of make your own gear.
- myoga noun: A Japanese type of ginger, Zingiber mioga, of which only the shoots and flower buds are used in cooking.
- myogelosis noun: A palpable area of hardening, stiffness or swelling in a muscle, usually painful on pressure, now considered to be correlated with a myofascial trigger point.
- myogelotic adjective: Of or pertaining to a myogelosis.
- myogenesis noun: The formation of muscle tissue during the development of an embryo
- myogenetic adjective: Originating in muscle.
- myogenic adjective /mʌɪəˈdʒɛnɪk/: Forming muscle fibres; pertaining to myogenesis.
- myogenically adverb: In a myogenic manner.
- myogenicity noun: The condition of being myogenic
- myogenin noun: A protein (and associated gene) responsible for the development of skeletal muscle
- myogenous adjective: Originating in muscle.
- myoglia noun: A network of muscle fibres
- myoglianin noun: A protein expressed in the muscles and glia of some flies
- myoglobin noun: A small globular protein, containing a heme group, that carries oxygen to muscles.
- myoglobinemia noun /ˌmaɪoʊɡloʊbɪˈnimiə/: Presence of myoglobin in the blood or (usually, more specifically) excessive myoglobin in the blood, as occurs in rhabdomyolysis or various other conditions.
- myoglobinemic adjective: Having or relating to myoglobinemia.
- myoglobinuria noun: The presence of more than trace amounts of myoglobin in the urine, usually associated with rhabdomyolysis or muscle destruction.
- myoglobinuric adjective: Relating to myoglobinuria.
- myoglobulin noun: The globulin of muscle tissue
- myoglobulinuria noun: The presence of myoglobulin in the urine
- myoglossatan adjective: Of or pertaining to the clade Myoglossata, including butterflies and moths.
- myogram noun: A graphical depiction of a contracting muscle, made using a myograph.
- myograph noun: An instrument for determining and recording the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.
- myographer noun: One who studies myography.
- myographic adjective: Pertaining to myography.
- myographical adjective: Of or relating to myography.
- myography noun: The scientific study of muscles, typically via myographs.
- myohaematin noun: cytochrome.
- myohemerythrin noun: The oxygen-carrying protein found in the muscles of some marine invertebrates
- myohemoglobin noun: A form of hemoglobin associated with muscle tissue
- myoid adjective, noun /ˈmaɪ.ɔɪd/: Composed of or resembling muscle.
- myoidal adjective: Synonym of myoid.
- myoimaging noun: The imaging of myopathies
- myoinductive adjective: That induces growth of muscle tissue
- myoinhibiting adjective: Synonym of myoinhibitory.
- myoinhibitory adjective: That inhibits the action of muscles
- myoinositol noun: The most commonly-occurring isomer of inositol.
- myointimal adjective: Relating to smooth muscle cells of the intima of a blood vessel
- myoinvasive adjective: invasive to muscle tissue
- Myojin parakaryote noun: A unicellular organism of the species Parakaryon myojinensis, unusual due to it having characteristics of both eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
- myokinase noun: adenylate kinase, a phosphotransferase enzyme that catalyzes the interconversion of adenine nucleotides and plays an important role in cellular energy...
- myokine noun /ˈmaɪəʊkaɪn/: A form of cytokine produced in muscle cells.
- myokinesis noun: muscular activity or massage
- myokinetic adjective: Relating to myokinesis
- myokinome noun: All the myokines present in an organism
- myokymia noun: An involuntary spontaneous quivering of part of a muscle, insufficient to move a joint.
- myokymic adjective: Relating to myokymia.
- myolemma noun: sarcolemma
- myolipoma noun: Alternative form of myelolipoma.
- myologic adjective: Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.
- myological adjective: Alternative form of myologic.
- myologically adverb: In terms of myology.
- myologist noun: A person who works in myology.
- myology noun /mʌɪˈɒlədʒi/: The physiological study of muscles.
- myolysis noun: dissolution of muscular tissue
- myoma noun /maɪˈəʊmə/: A tumor composed of muscle tissue, usually benign and commonly occurring in the uterus and the esophagus.
- myomancy noun: Divination by interpreting rats or mice. Their cries were believed to indicate the presence of evil.
- myomatous adjective: Of or pertaining to a myoma.
- myomectomy noun: The removal of the uterine myomas.
- myomegalin noun: A protein that is associated with cardiomyopathy
- myomere noun: A block of zig-zagging W- or V-shaped muscle fibers commonly found in fish and other chordate fossils.
- myomesin noun: A protein found in the M-band of muscle sarcomeres in association with M-protein.
- myometer noun: An instrument used to measure muscle contraction
- myometrial adjective: Of or pertaining to the myometrium
- myometric adjective: By means of a myometer
- myometrical adjective: myometric
- myometritis noun /ˌmaɪoʊˌmiˈtɹaɪtɪs/: Inflammation of the myometrium.
- myometrium noun /ˌmaɪəʊˈmiːtɹiəm/: The smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus.
- myometry noun: The measurement of muscular contraction
- myomodulator noun: A muscular biomodulator
- myomodulin noun: A neuropeptide myomodulator
- myomorph noun: Any of the suborder Myomorpha of mouse-like rodents.
- myon noun: Alternative form of myeon.
- myonecrose verb: To become myonecrotic
- myonecrosis noun: necrosis of muscle tissue
- myonecrotic adjective: Relating to myonecrosis.
- myonectin noun: A particular myokine released by the contraction of muscle
- myoneme noun /ˈmaɪəniːm/: A contractile structure found in some eukaryotic single-celled organisms, particularly Vorticella, consisting of a series of protein filaments that shorten...
- myoneural adjective: neuromuscular; relating to the muscles and nerves
- myoneurin noun: Any of a family of zinc finger proteins whose members have been implicated in regulatory functions of gene expression
- myonicity noun: The contractile property of muscular tissue.
- myonuclear adjective: Relating to myonuclei
- myonucleus noun: the nucleus of a muscle cell
- myonymy noun /maɪˈɒnɪmi/: Nomenclature of the muscles.
- myopalladin noun: A particular sarcomeric protein
- myopathic adjective: Pertaining to myopathy
- myopathogenesis noun: The development of myopathy.
- myopathologic adjective: Relating to myopathies
- myopathological adjective: Relating to myopathology
- myopathology noun: disease of muscle tissue
- myopathy noun: Any of several diseases of muscle that are not caused by nerve disorders
- myope noun: One who has myopia.
- myopectineal adjective: Relating to a muscle connected to the pecten
- myopericardial adjective: Relating to the myocardium and the pericardium
- myopericarditis noun: A combination of myocarditis and pericarditis.
- myopericyte noun: A type of spindle-shaped cell residing within muscle tissue.
- myopericytic adjective: Relating to myopericytes.
- myopericytoma noun: A tumor characterized by the abnormal growth of myopericytes.
- myoperiosteal adjective: Relating to muscle and periosteum
- myopexia noun: Alternative form of myopexy.
- myopexy noun: fixation of muscles of the eye in order to correct myopia
- myophage noun: A contractile bacteriophage
- myophagocytosis noun: phagocytosis of muscle tissue
- myophan noun: myoneme
- myophily noun: pollination by flies
- myophore noun: The point of attachment of a muscle to the shell of a mollusc
- myophoric adjective: Of or relating to myophores.
- myophosphorylase noun: The muscle isoform of the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase.
- myophysical adjective: Relating to myophysics.
- myophysics noun: The study of muscle physics.
- myopia noun /maɪˈəʊ.pɪ.ə/: A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
- myopiagenic adjective: That causes myopia.
- myopic adjective, noun /maɪˈɒpɪk/: Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.
- myopically adverb: As if suffering from myopia.
- myopigenesis noun: The development of myopia.
- myopigenic adjective: Alternative form of myopiagenic.
- myopist noun: A person who is myopic.
- myopization noun: The development of myopia.
- myoplasm noun: The contractile part of a muscle cell
- myoplasmic adjective: Relating to myoplasm
- myoplastic adjective: Relating to myoplasty.
- myoplasty noun: Repair of damaged muscle
- myopodial adjective: Relating to myopodia
- myopodin noun: A protein present in cardiac smooth muscle
- myopodium noun: A form of filopodium produced by muscle tissue
- myoporaceous adjective: Of or relating to the Myoporaceae.
- myopotential noun: electrical potential generated by a muscle
- myoprecursor noun: Any tissue that develops into muscle
- myoprocessor noun: A system that uses computer-generated models to simulate human muscles in real time.
- myoprogenitor adjective: Describing cells that develop into muscle cells
- myoprotection noun: The protection of muscle tissue from damage.
- myoprotective adjective: That protects muscle tissue from damage
- myoprotein noun: Any protein that occurs in muscle tissue.
- myops noun: A myope; a person who has myopia.
- myopsid noun: Any squid of the order Myopsida or suborder Myopsina.
- myopsis noun: The appearance of muscae volitantes.
- myopsocid noun: Any barklouse in the family Myopsocidae.
- myoregeneration noun: The regeneration of muscle tissue
- myoregulation noun: The regulation of muscle activity
- myoregulatory adjective: Relating to myoregulation
- myoregulin noun: A micropeptide that regulates muscle performance
- myorelaxant noun: A muscle relaxant.
- myorelaxation noun: The relaxation of the muscles.
- myorelaxing adjective: That relaxes the muscles.
- myorenal syndrome noun: Synonym of crush syndrome.
- myoresolution noun: The relaxation or paralysis of a muscle, typically induced by medication during general anesthesia for a procedure.
- myorhabdoid adjective: Describing rodlike muscle tissue
- myorhythmia noun: rhythmic movement of muscle tissue
- myorhythmic adjective: Relating to myorhythmia.
- myorod noun: A protein in the smooth muscle of some mollusc; a filament containing this protein (together with myosin)
- myorrhaphy noun: Suture of a muscle.
- myorrhexis noun: The laceration or tearing of a muscle.
- myosalpingitis noun: inflammation of the myosalpinx
- myosarcoma noun: A malignant muscle tumor.
- myosatellite noun: A kind of small mononuclear multipotent cell with virtually no cytoplasm, found in mature muscle. It is a precursor to skeletal muscle cells.
- myosclerosis noun: sclerosis of muscle tissue, especially myositis coupled with hyperplasia of the interstitial connective tissue
- myoscope noun: An instrument for studying the muscles.
- myosegmental adjective: Relating to myosegmentation
- myosegmentation noun: The segmentation of muscle fibres
- myoseki noun: Any of the 105 names available to sumo oyakata.
- myoseptal adjective: Relating to myosepta
- myoseptum noun: myotome
- myoseverin noun: a purine derivative that binds microtubules and is an inhibitor of angiogenesis
- myosignal noun: An electrical signal that controls a muscle.
- myosin noun /ˈmaɪ.oʊsɪn/: Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles.
- myosinic adjective: Relating to or composed of myosin.
- myosinogen noun: A globulin, one of the two principal proteins of muscle tissue, from which the myosin formed during rigor mortis is derived.
- myosis noun: Alternative spelling of miosis.
- myositic adjective: myotic; producing myosis
- myositis noun: Inflammation of the muscles.
- myoskeletal adjective: Relating to muscles and the skeleton
- myosmine noun: An alkaloid, related to nicotine, found in tobacco and other plants.
- myosonographic adjective: Relating to myosonography.
- myosonography noun: Ultrasonography of the muscles.
- myosote noun: Myosotis.
- myosotis noun /mʌɪəˈsəʊtɪs/: Any plant of the genus Myosotis, the forget-me-nots.
- myospasm noun: A sudden, involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle
- myospastic adjective: Of or related to myospasm.
- myosphere noun: A spherical conglomeration of muscle stem cells
- myospherulosis noun: A foreign body-type granulomatous reaction to lipid-containing material and blood.
- myostasis noun: The permanent shortening (reduction in length) of a muscle
- myostatic adjective: Relating to myostasis
- myostatin noun /ˈmaɪəʊˌstætɪn/: A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- myosteatosis noun: The abnormal deposition of fat in muscle tissue
- myosteatotic adjective: Relating to myosteatosis
- myostimulation noun: electrical stimulation of muscles
- myostimulator noun: A device used in myostimulation
- myostimulatory adjective: That stimulates the muscles (especially by means of electricity)
- myostracal adjective: Relating to the myostracum.
- myostracum noun: Part of shell wall secreted at attachment of adductor muscles.
- myosuppressin noun: Any of a family of peptide agonists that inhibit the action of muscles (especially of arthropods)
- myotactin noun: A hypodermal protein involved in myocyte adhesion
- myotasis noun: A stretching of muscle.
- myotatic adjective: Of or pertaining to myotasis
- myotendinal adjective: Alternative form of myotendinous.
- myotendinous adjective: relating to, or connecting a muscle and a tendon
- myotherapist noun: A practitioner of myotherapy.
- myotherapy noun: A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.
- myotic adjective, noun: Alternative form of miotic.
- myotid noun: Any bat of the genus Myotis.
- myotilin noun: A muscle protein found within the Z-disc of sarcomeres.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under M: 47,683 words, in 159 parts.