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myocyte

noun

myocyte is a noun meaning “A single muscle fiber cell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-O-C-Y-T-E, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of myocyte is myocytes.

What does myocyte mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A single muscle fiber cell.

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

How do you pronounce myocyte?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-myocyte.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of myocyte

  • myocytes plural

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

How common is myocyte?

Myocyte appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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 myocyte come from?

From myo- + -cyte, thus literally "muscle cell".

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