mosaicism
noun
mosaicism is a noun meaning “The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-S-A-I-C-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mosaicism is mosaicisms.
What does mosaicism mean?
noun
- 1
The condition in which more than one genetically distinct population of cells coexist within one individual.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mosaicism
- mosaicisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mosaicism?
Mosaicism appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).