costiasis

1. 1.

   a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin

   Broaderanimal disease

Other forms of costiasis

plural

costiasises·

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 costiasis

What does costiasis mean?

costiasis means "a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin".

How many syllables are in costiasis?

costiasis has 4 syllables: co-sti-a-sis. The stress falls on "sti".

Is costiasis a common word?

costiasis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.