atrioventricular

1. 1.

   relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart

   “atrioventricular disease”

   Synonymsauriculoventricular

Questions about atrioventricular

What does atrioventricular mean?

atrioventricular means "relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart".

How many syllables are in atrioventricular?

atrioventricular has 7 syllables and divides as a-tri-o-ven-tri-cu-lar 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 atrioventricular?

Close synonyms include auriculoventricular. 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 atrioventricular a common word?

atrioventricular 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.