bacteriostasis

1. 1.

   inhibition of the growth of bacteria

   Broaderorganic process

Other forms of bacteriostasis

plural

bacteriostases

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 bacteriostasis

What does bacteriostasis mean?

bacteriostasis means "inhibition of the growth of bacteria".

How many syllables are in bacteriostasis?

bacteriostasis has 6 syllables and divides as bac-te-ri-o-sta-sis 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.