carcinomatous

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   being or relating to carcinoma

   “a carcinomatous lesion”

Questions about carcinomatous

What does carcinomatous mean?

carcinomatous means "being or relating to carcinoma".

How many syllables are in carcinomatous?

carcinomatous has 5 syllables and divides as car-ci-no-ma-tous 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.

Is carcinomatous a common word?

carcinomatous 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.