ketoaciduria

Questions about ketoaciduria

What does ketoaciduria mean?

ketoaciduria means "excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation".

How many syllables are in ketoaciduria?

ketoaciduria has 7 syllables and divides as ke-to-a-ci-du-ri-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 ketoaciduria?

Close synonyms include ketonuria, acetonuria. 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 ketoaciduria a common word?

ketoaciduria 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.