myopathic

1. 1.

   of or relating to any disease of the muscles that is not caused by nerve dysfunction

Questions about myopathic

What does myopathic mean?

myopathic means "of or relating to any disease of the muscles that is not caused by nerve dysfunction".

How many syllables are in myopathic?

myopathic has 3 syllables and divides as myo-pa-thic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is myopathic a common word?

myopathic 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.