apophyseal

1. 1.

   of or relating to an apophysis

Questions about apophyseal

What does apophyseal mean?

apophyseal means "of or relating to an apophysis".

How many syllables are in apophyseal?

apophyseal has 5 syllables and divides as a-po-phy-se-al 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 apophyseal a common word?

apophyseal 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.