intimal

1. 1.

   of or relating to the intima

Questions about intimal

What does intimal mean?

intimal means "of or relating to the intima".

How many syllables are in intimal?

intimal has 3 syllables and divides as in-ti-mal 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.

Is intimal a common word?

intimal 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.