hemopoiesis

Other forms of hemopoiesis

plural

hemopoiesises·

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 hemopoiesis

What does hemopoiesis mean?

hemopoiesis means "the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow)".

How many syllables are in hemopoiesis?

hemopoiesis has 4 syllables: he-mo-poie-sis. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for hemopoiesis?

Close synonyms include hematopoiesis, haematopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hemogenesis, haemogenesis. 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 hemopoiesis a common word?

hemopoiesis 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.