arteriosclerosis

Other forms of arteriosclerosis

plural

arterioscleroses

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 arteriosclerosis

What does arteriosclerosis mean?

arteriosclerosis means "sclerosis of the arterial walls".

How many syllables are in arteriosclerosis?

arteriosclerosis has 7 syllables: ar-ter-i-os-cle-ro-sis. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ɑɹˌtɪɹioʊsklɚˈoʊsəs/.

What is another word for arteriosclerosis?

Close synonyms include arterial sclerosis, hardening of the arteries, induration of the arteries, coronary-artery disease. 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 arteriosclerosis a common word?

arteriosclerosis 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.

What rhymes with arteriosclerosis?

6 words rhyme with arteriosclerosis. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.