hemostasis

Questions about hemostasis

What does hemostasis mean?

hemostasis means "surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)".

How many syllables are in hemostasis?

hemostasis has 4 syllables and divides as he-mo-sta-sis 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.

What is another word for hemostasis?

Close synonyms include haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia. 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 hemostasis a common word?

hemostasis 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.