ischaemic

1. 1.

   relating to or affected by ischemia

   Synonymsischemic

Questions about ischaemic

What does ischaemic mean?

ischaemic means "relating to or affected by ischemia".

How many syllables are in ischaemic?

ischaemic has 4 syllables and divides as i-scha-e-mic 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 ischaemic?

Close synonyms include ischemic. 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 ischaemic a common word?

ischaemic 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.