fibrositis

1. 1.

   inflammation of white fibrous tissues (especially muscle sheaths)

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of fibrositis

plural

fibrositises·

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 fibrositis

What does fibrositis mean?

fibrositis means "inflammation of white fibrous tissues (especially muscle sheaths)".

How many syllables are in fibrositis?

fibrositis has 4 syllables and divides as fi-bro-si-tis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.