hemochromatosis

1. 1.

   pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints

   Synonymsiron-storage diseaseiron overloadbronzed diabetes

   Broaderpathology

   Narrowerclassic hemochromatosisacquired hemochromatosis

Other forms of hemochromatosis

plural

hemochromatosises·

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 hemochromatosis

What does hemochromatosis mean?

hemochromatosis means "pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints".

How many syllables are in hemochromatosis?

hemochromatosis has 6 syllables: he-moch-ro-ma-to-sis. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for hemochromatosis?

Close synonyms include iron-storage disease, iron overload, bronzed diabetes. 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 hemochromatosis a common word?

hemochromatosis 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.