maxillomandibular

1. 1.

   relating to the upper and lower jaws

Questions about maxillomandibular

What does maxillomandibular mean?

maxillomandibular means "relating to the upper and lower jaws".

How many syllables are in maxillomandibular?

maxillomandibular has 7 syllables and divides as max-il-lo-man-di-bu-lar 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 maxillomandibular a common word?

maxillomandibular 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.