musculoskeletal

1. 1.

   relating to muscles and skeleton

Questions about musculoskeletal

What does musculoskeletal mean?

musculoskeletal means "relating to muscles and skeleton".

How many syllables are in musculoskeletal?

musculoskeletal has 6 syllables and divides as mu-scu-lo-ske-le-tal 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 musculoskeletal a common word?

musculoskeletal 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.