arterialise

Questions about arterialise

What does arterialise mean?

arterialise means "change venous blood into arterial blood".

How many syllables are in arterialise?

arterialise has 5 syllables and divides as ar-te-ri-a-lise 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.

What is another word for arterialise?

Close synonyms include arterialize. 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 arterialise a common word?

arterialise 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.