myxoma

1. 1.

   a benign tumor of connective tissue containing jellylike material

   Broaderbenign tumor

Other forms of myxoma

plural

myxomata

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 myxoma

What does myxoma mean?

myxoma means "a benign tumor of connective tissue containing jellylike material".

How many syllables are in myxoma?

myxoma has 3 syllables and divides as myx-o-ma 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.