bartholin

1. 1.

   Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629)

   SynonymsCaspar Bartholin

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Other forms of bartholin

plural

bartholins·

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 bartholin

What does bartholin mean?

bartholin means "Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629)".

How many syllables are in bartholin?

bartholin has 3 syllables: bar-tho-lin. The stress falls on "bar".

What is another word for bartholin?

Close synonyms include Caspar Bartholin. 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 bartholin a common word?

bartholin 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.