hematocele

1. 1.

   swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)

   Synonymshaematocelehematocoelehaematocoele

   Broaderswelling

Other forms of hematocele

plural

hematoceles·

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 hematocele

What does hematocele mean?

hematocele means "swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)".

How many syllables are in hematocele?

hematocele has 5 syllables: he-ma-to-ce-le. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for hematocele?

Close synonyms include haematocele, hematocoele, haematocoele. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hematocele a common word?

hematocele 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.