antipyresis

1. 1.

   medication with antipyretics to treat a fever

   Broadermedication

Other forms of antipyresis

plural

antipyresises·

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 antipyresis

What does antipyresis mean?

antipyresis means "medication with antipyretics to treat a fever".

How many syllables are in antipyresis?

antipyresis has 5 syllables and divides as an-ti-py-re-sis 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.