diapedesis

1. 1.

   passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue

   Broaderorganic phenomenon

Other forms of diapedesis

plural

diapedesises·

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 diapedesis

What does diapedesis mean?

diapedesis means "passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue".

How many syllables are in diapedesis?

diapedesis has 5 syllables: di-a-pe-de-sis. The stress falls on "pe".

Is diapedesis a common word?

diapedesis 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.