brucellosis

Other forms of brucellosis

plural

brucellosises·

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 brucellosis

What does brucellosis mean?

brucellosis means "infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brucellosis?

brucellosis has 4 syllables: bru-cel-lo-sis. The stress falls on "cel".

What is another word for brucellosis?

Close synonyms include undulant fever, Malta fever, Gibraltar fever, Rock fever, Mediterranean fever. 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 brucellosis a common word?

brucellosis 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.