coronary

Other forms of coronary

plural

coronaries·

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 coronary

What does coronary mean?

coronary means "obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coronary?

coronary has 4 syllables: co-ro-nar-y. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹəˌnɛɹi/.

What is another word for coronary?

Close synonyms include coronary thrombosis. 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 coronary a common word?

coronary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with coronary?

41 words rhyme with coronary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.