necrobiosis

Questions about necrobiosis

What does necrobiosis mean?

necrobiosis means "(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)".

How many syllables are in necrobiosis?

necrobiosis has 5 syllables and divides as ne-cro-bi-o-sis 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.

What is another word for necrobiosis?

Close synonyms include cell death. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is necrobiosis a common word?

necrobiosis 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.