mesothelioma

1. 1.

   a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust

   Broadercarcinoma

Other forms of mesothelioma

plural

mesotheliomas·

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 mesothelioma

What does mesothelioma mean?

mesothelioma means "a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust".

How many syllables are in mesothelioma?

mesothelioma has 6 syllables: mes-o-the-li-o-ma. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌmɛsəˌθiliˈoʊmə/.

Is mesothelioma a common word?

mesothelioma 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.

What rhymes with mesothelioma?

1 word rhymes with mesothelioma. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.