lymphangitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of a lymph vessel

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of lymphangitis

plural

lymphangitides

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lymphangitis

What does lymphangitis mean?

lymphangitis means "inflammation of a lymph vessel".

How many syllables are in lymphangitis?

lymphangitis has 4 syllables: lym-phan-gi-tis. The stress falls on "phan".

Is lymphangitis a common word?

lymphangitis 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.