bronchiolitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles

   Broaderbronchitis

Other forms of bronchiolitis

plural

bronchiolitises·

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 bronchiolitis

What does bronchiolitis mean?

bronchiolitis means "inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles".

How many syllables are in bronchiolitis?

bronchiolitis has 5 syllables and divides as bron-chi-o-li-tis 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.