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myoblast

noun

myoblast is a noun meaning “An undifferentiated stem cell that develops into muscle tissue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-O-B-L-A-S-T, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of myoblast is myoblasts.

What does myoblast mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An undifferentiated stem cell that develops into muscle tissue.

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

Forms of myoblast

  • myoblasts plural

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

How common is myoblast?

Myoblast appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 myoblast come from?

From myo- + -blast.

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