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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hypoadrenocorticism is a noun meaning "a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin". It carries one recorded sense.
a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hypoadrenocorticism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.