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myelocyte

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mye-lo-cyte
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large cell, found in bone marrow, that becomes a granulocyte when mature.

noun

A cell associated with the myelin of the brain and spinal cord.

Etymology

From myelo- + -cyte.

Word Breakdown

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

myelocytes (plural)

Derived Forms

monomyelocyte myelocytic myelocytosis

Frequently Paired Words

promyelocyte metamyelocyte

Questions

What does myelocyte mean?
A large cell, found in bone marrow, that becomes a granulocyte when mature.
Where does myelocyte come from?
From myelo- + -cyte.

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