atherosclerotic

1. 1.

   of or relating to atherosclerosis

Questions about atherosclerotic

What does atherosclerotic mean?

atherosclerotic means "of or relating to atherosclerosis".

How many syllables are in atherosclerotic?

atherosclerotic has 6 syllables and divides as a-the-ros-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 atherosclerotic a common word?

atherosclerotic 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.