MYOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myoid mean? 

• MYOID (adjective)
  The adjective MYOID has 1 sense:

1. resembling muscle

  Familiarity information: MYOID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYOID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling muscle

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

muscle (animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells)

 Context examples 

A benign or malignant mesenchymal neoplasm originating in the central nervous system or the meninges and showing fibrous, fibrohistiocytic, adipose, myoid, endothelial, chondroid or osseous, but not meningothelial differentiation.

(Central Nervous System Soft Tissue Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

It is composed of myoid cells arranged in a perivascular growth pattern.

(Myopericytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The portion of the photoreceptor cell between the outer segment and nucleus that is divided into an ellipsoid and myoid section.

(Inner Segment of the Photoreceptor Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Mesenchymal, Non-Meningothelial Tumors are benign and malignant mesenchymal tumors originating in the CNS or the meninges and showing fibrous, fibrohistiocytic, adipose, myoid, endothelial, chondroid or osseous, but not meningothelial differentiation.

(Mesenchymal Non-Meningothelial Tumor of the Central Nervous System, NCI Thesaurus)