achlorhydria

1. 1.

   an abnormal deficiency or absence of free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice; often associated with severe anemias and cancer of the stomach

   Broaderdisorder

Other forms of achlorhydria

plural

achlorhydrias·

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 achlorhydria

What does achlorhydria mean?

achlorhydria means "an abnormal deficiency or absence of free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice; often associated with severe anemias and cancer of the stomach".

How many syllables are in achlorhydria?

achlorhydria has 5 syllables: ach-lor-hy-dri-a. The stress falls on "hy".

Is achlorhydria a common word?

achlorhydria 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.