adrenocortical

1. 1.

   of or derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands

Questions about adrenocortical

What does adrenocortical mean?

adrenocortical means "of or derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands".

How many syllables are in adrenocortical?

adrenocortical has 6 syllables and divides as a-dre-no-cor-ti-cal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is adrenocortical a common word?

adrenocortical 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.