cerebrovascular

1. 1.

   of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it

   “a cerebrovascular accident”

Questions about cerebrovascular

What does cerebrovascular mean?

cerebrovascular means "of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it".

How many syllables are in cerebrovascular?

cerebrovascular has 6 syllables and divides as ce-re-bro-va-scu-lar 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 cerebrovascular a common word?

cerebrovascular 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.