arteriosclerotic

1. 1.

   affected by arteriosclerosis

Questions about arteriosclerotic

What does arteriosclerotic mean?

arteriosclerotic means "affected by arteriosclerosis".

How many syllables are in arteriosclerotic?

arteriosclerotic has 7 syllables and divides as ar-te-ri-os-cle-ro-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 arteriosclerotic a common word?

arteriosclerotic 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.