myelitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the spinal cord

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of myelitis

plural

myelitises·

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 myelitis

What does myelitis mean?

myelitis means "inflammation of the spinal cord".

How many syllables are in myelitis?

myelitis has 3 syllables and divides as mye-li-tis 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.