cytostatic
adjective, noun
cytostatic is an adjective meaning “Tending to inhibit the growth and multiplication of cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-T-O-S-T-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cytostatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Tending to inhibit the growth and multiplication of cells.
noun
- 1
Any substance which inhibits cell growth and multiplication.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cytostatic
- cytostatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytostatic?
Cytostatic appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).
Cytostatic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tending to inhibit cell growth and multiplication:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | zytostatisch |
| Spanish | citostático |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cytostatic come from?
From cyto- + -static.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).