hyperthermia

Questions about hyperthermia

What does hyperthermia mean?

hyperthermia means "abnormally high body temperature; sometimes induced (as in treating some forms of cancer)".

How many syllables are in hyperthermia?

hyperthermia has 5 syllables and divides as hy-per-ther-mi-a 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 hyperthermia?

Close synonyms include hyperthermy. 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.

What is the opposite of hyperthermia?

The recorded antonyms are hypothermia.

Is hyperthermia a common word?

hyperthermia 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.