catheterisation

1. 1.

   the operation of introducing a catheter into the body

   Synonymscatheterization

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of catheterisation

plural

catheterisations·

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 catheterisation

What does catheterisation mean?

catheterisation means "the operation of introducing a catheter into the body".

How many syllables are in catheterisation?

catheterisation has 7 syllables: ca-the-te-ri-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for catheterisation?

Close synonyms include catheterization. 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 catheterisation a common word?

catheterisation 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.