cellulitis

1. 1.

   an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of cellulitis

plural

cellulitises·

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 cellulitis

What does cellulitis mean?

cellulitis means "an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain".

How many syllables are in cellulitis?

cellulitis has 4 syllables: cel-lu-li-tis. The stress falls on "lu".

Is cellulitis a common word?

cellulitis 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.