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mito

mito noun: mitochondrial disease.

Noun

mito (uncountable)

  1. Mitochondrial disease.
    • Without consulting the girl’s doctor at Tufts, Boston Children’s concluded that the girl’s problem was not mito, but largely psychiatric, according to The Boston Globe.2015 July 11, Maxine Eichner, “The New Child Abuse Panic”, in New York Times

Proper noun capitalized: Mito

Mito (uncountable)

  1. The capital city of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Origin of mito

Shortening.

Borrowed from Japanese 水戸 (Mito).

Questions about mito

What does mito mean?
Mito means mitochondrial disease.
What part of speech is mito?
Mito can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near mito in the dictionary

  1. MITMs
  2. mitnagdim
  3. mitnaged
  4. Mitnick
  5. Mitnicks
  6. mito
  7. mito-
  8. mitoaggresome
  9. mitoaggresomes
  10. mitobiogenesis
  11. mitobronitol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mito (page history and authors); Mito (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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