laryngopharyngeal

1. 1.

   of or relating to the larynx and pharynx

Questions about laryngopharyngeal

What does laryngopharyngeal mean?

laryngopharyngeal means "of or relating to the larynx and pharynx".

How many syllables are in laryngopharyngeal?

laryngopharyngeal has 7 syllables and divides as la-ryn-go-pha-ryn-ge-al 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 laryngopharyngeal a common word?

laryngopharyngeal 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.