myelography

1. 1.

   roentgenography of the spinal cord to detect possible lesions (usually after injection of a contrast medium into the subarachnoid space)

   Broaderroentgenography

Other forms of myelography

plural

myelographies·

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 myelography

What does myelography mean?

myelography means "roentgenography of the spinal cord to detect possible lesions (usually after injection of a contrast medium into the subarachnoid space)".

How many syllables are in myelography?

myelography has 4 syllables and divides as mye-lo-gra-phy 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.