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myc-

  1. variant of myco- before a vowel:

    mycelium.



myc-

combining_form

  1. a variant of myco-
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

"Excitingly, factors related to the transcription factors Myc and Sox2, which are also used in modern medicine to produce stem cells from differentiated human cells, also play a role here," says Alexander Stockinger, the other first author of the study.

In tissue culture, the investigators identified another oncogene, called MYC, that was altered in most of the resistant tumors, then developed a combination treatment that was effective against tumor cells that had developed resistance to the active RAS inhibitor.

One gene that HLX increases expression of is MYC, which also increases the expression of several other cancer-causing genes, causing a cascade of activity that accelerates the growth of group 3 medulloblastoma tumors.

"Understanding why MYC is elevated in these tumors is extremely important, and this new link to HLX provides insights that open new therapeutic possibilities," says study co-author and Kimmel Cancer Center researcher Charles Eberhart, M.D.,

The new SCLC-type tumors are resistant to anti-EGFR therapy because their growth is fueled by a new cancer driver, high levels of Myc protein.

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Words That Use myc-

What does myc- mean?

Myc- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “mushroom, fungus.” It is used in many medical and scientific terms, especially in biology—as well as in a branch of biology known as mycology, as we’ll discuss below.

Myc- comes from the Greek mýkēs, meaning “mushroom, fungus.”

Myc- is a variant of myco-, which loses its –o– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.

The closely related combining forms myceto- and -mycete both also indicate “mushroom, fungus.” The combining form -mycin used in the names of antibiotics, usually those derived from fungi.

Want to know more? Read our Words That Use myco-, myceto-, -mycete, and -mycin articles.

Examples of myc-

One example of a term in medicine that features the combining form myc- is mycosis, “the presence of parasitic fungi in or on any part of the body.”

The first part of the word, myc-, means “fungus.” (Fungi is a plural form.) The suffix -osis is used to denote disorders or abnormal states, including diseases. Taken together, mycosis literally translates to “fungus disorder.”

What are some words that use or are related to the combining form myc-?

What are some other forms that myc- may be commonly confused with?

Break it down!

The suffix -ota is used in taxonomic names, especially of phyla. With this in mind, what kind of organisms can be found in the kingdom known as Mycota?

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