nanophthalmos

1. 1.

   condition in which both eyes are abnormally small but otherwise normal

   Broaderabnormality

Other forms of nanophthalmos

plural

nanophthalmoses·

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 nanophthalmos

What does nanophthalmos mean?

nanophthalmos means "condition in which both eyes are abnormally small but otherwise normal".

How many syllables are in nanophthalmos?

nanophthalmos has 4 syllables: na-noph-thal-mos. The stress falls on "noph".

Is nanophthalmos a common word?

nanophthalmos 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.