hydrocele

1. 1.

   disorder in which serous fluid accumulates in a body sac (especially in the scrotum)

   Broaderdisorder

Other forms of hydrocele

plural

hydroceles·

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 hydrocele

What does hydrocele mean?

hydrocele means "disorder in which serous fluid accumulates in a body sac (especially in the scrotum)".

How many syllables are in hydrocele?

hydrocele has 4 syllables and divides as hy-dro-ce-le 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.