mucopurulent

1. 1.

   containing or composed of mucus and pus

Questions about mucopurulent

What does mucopurulent mean?

mucopurulent means "containing or composed of mucus and pus".

How many syllables are in mucopurulent?

mucopurulent has 5 syllables and divides as mu-co-pu-ru-lent 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 mucopurulent a common word?

mucopurulent 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.