cytokeratin
noun
cytokeratin is a noun meaning “Any of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-T-O-K-E-R-A-T-I-N, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cytokeratin is cytokeratins.
What does cytokeratin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cytokeratin
- cytokeratins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytokeratin?
Cytokeratin appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).
How do you abbreviate cytokeratin?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cytokeratin: CK.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cytokeratin come from?
From cyto- + keratin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).