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say it: en-doh-meh-tree-OH-sis
endometriosis is a noun meaning "the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea". It is pronounced /ˌɛndoʊˌmɛtɹiˈoʊsɪs/ — en-doh-meh-tree-OH-sis. It carries one recorded sense.
the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea
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 endometriosis 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.