canulation

Questions about canulation

What does canulation mean?

canulation means "the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ".

How many syllables are in canulation?

canulation has 5 syllables and divides as ca-nu-la-ti-on 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.

What is another word for canulation?

Close synonyms include cannulation, cannulization, cannulisation, canulization, canulisation. 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 canulation a common word?

canulation 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.