blepharitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of blepharitis

plural

blepharitises·

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 blepharitis

What does blepharitis mean?

blepharitis means "inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts".

How many syllables are in blepharitis?

blepharitis has 4 syllables: ble-pha-ri-tis. The stress falls on "pha".

Is blepharitis a common word?

blepharitis 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.