acromegaly

1. 1.

   enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor)

   Synonymsacromegalia

   Broaderhypertrophy

   Partshyperpituitarism

Other forms of acromegaly

plural

acromegalies·

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 acromegaly

What does acromegaly mean?

acromegaly means "enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor)".

How many syllables are in acromegaly?

acromegaly has 5 syllables: a-cro-me-ga-ly. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for acromegaly?

Close synonyms include acromegalia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acromegaly a common word?

acromegaly 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.