cytochalasin
noun
cytochalasin is a noun meaning “Any of several related fungal metabolites that have an effect on cytokinesis while not affecting karyokinesis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-T-O-C-H-A-L-A-S-I-N, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cytochalasin is cytochalasins.
What does cytochalasin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several related fungal metabolites that have an effect on cytokinesis while not affecting karyokinesis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cytochalasin
- cytochalasins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytochalasin?
Cytochalasin appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cytochalasin come from?
From Ancient Greek κύτος ("a vessel") + χαλαρός ("to slacken, loosen').
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).