extracellular

1. 1.

   located or occurring outside a cell or cells

   “extracellular fluid”

   Antonymsintracellular

   biology

Questions about extracellular

What does extracellular mean?

extracellular means "located or occurring outside a cell or cells".

How many syllables are in extracellular?

extracellular has 5 syllables: ex-tra-cel-lu-lar. The stress falls on "cel". In IPA it is /ˌɛkstɹəˈsɛljəlɚ/.

What is the opposite of extracellular?

The recorded antonyms are intracellular.

Is extracellular a common word?

extracellular is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.