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say it: sahy-tuh-meg-uh-loh-VAHY-ruhs
cytomegalovirus is a noun meaning "any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems". It is pronounced /ˌsaɪtəˌmɛɡəloʊˈvaɪɹəs/ — sahy-tuh-meg-uh-loh-VAHY-ruhs. It carries one recorded sense.
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cytomegalovirus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.