iontophoresis

Questions about iontophoresis

What does iontophoresis mean?

iontophoresis means "therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues".

How many syllables are in iontophoresis?

iontophoresis has 6 syllables and divides as i-on-to-pho-re-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 iontophoresis?

Close synonyms include ionic medication, iontotherapy, electromotive drug administration, EMDA. 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 iontophoresis a common word?

iontophoresis 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.