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myeloproliferative

/ˌmaɪələpɹəˈlɪfəɹeɪtɪv/adjective

myeloproliferative is an adjective meaning “of or pertaining to the presence of an abnormal proliferation of myelopoietic cells (from bone marrow)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-E-L-O-P-R-O-L-I-F-E-R-A-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does myeloproliferative mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    of or pertaining to the presence of an abnormal proliferation of myelopoietic cells (from bone marrow)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce myeloproliferative?

  • /ˌmaɪələpɹəˈlɪfəɹeɪtɪv/
  • /-ətɪv/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is myeloproliferative?

Myeloproliferative appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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 myeloproliferative come from?

From myelo- + proliferative.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).