anastomotic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis

Questions about anastomotic

What does anastomotic mean?

anastomotic means "of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis".

How many syllables are in anastomotic?

anastomotic has 5 syllables and divides as a-na-sto-mo-tic 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 anastomotic a common word?

anastomotic 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.