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say it: mes-uh-thee-lee-OH-muh
mesothelioma is a noun meaning "a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust". It is pronounced /ˌmɛsəˌθiliˈoʊmə/ — mes-uh-thee-lee-OH-muh. It carries one recorded sense.
a form of carcinoma of the mesothelium lining lungs or abdomen or heart; usually associated with exposure to asbestos dust
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mesothelioma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.