miosis

Other forms of miosis

plural

mioses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about miosis

What does miosis mean?

miosis means "(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in miosis?

miosis has 3 syllables: mi-o-sis. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for miosis?

Close synonyms include meiosis, reduction division, light reflex, pupillary reflex, myosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is miosis a common word?

miosis 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.