nasopharyngeal

1. 1.

   of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx

Questions about nasopharyngeal

What does nasopharyngeal mean?

nasopharyngeal means "of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx".

How many syllables are in nasopharyngeal?

nasopharyngeal has 6 syllables and divides as na-so-pha-ryn-ge-al 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 nasopharyngeal a common word?

nasopharyngeal 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.