myometrium
/ˌmaɪəʊˈmiːtɹiəm/noun
myometrium is a noun meaning “The smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-O-M-E-T-R-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of myometrium is myometria.
What does myometrium mean?
noun
- 1
The smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce myometrium?
- /ˌmaɪəʊˈmiːtɹiəm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-myometrium.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of myometrium
- myometria plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is myometrium?
Myometrium appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).
Myometrium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus:
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 myometrium come from?
From myo- + Late Latin metrium (“womb”), from Ancient Greek μήτριον (mḗtrion, “of a mother”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).