coccidiomycosis

Questions about coccidiomycosis

What does coccidiomycosis mean?

coccidiomycosis means "an infection of the lungs and skin characterized by excessive sputum and nodules".

How many syllables are in coccidiomycosis?

coccidiomycosis has 7 syllables and divides as coc-ci-di-o-my-co-sis 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 coccidiomycosis?

Close synonyms include coccidioidomycosis, valley fever, desert rheumatism. 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 coccidiomycosis a common word?

coccidiomycosis 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.