nephroblastoma

Questions about nephroblastoma

What does nephroblastoma mean?

nephroblastoma means "malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass".

How many syllables are in nephroblastoma?

nephroblastoma has 5 syllables and divides as neph-ro-bla-sto-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.

What is another word for nephroblastoma?

Close synonyms include Wilms' tumor, Wilms tumour, adenomyosarcoma, embryoma of the kidney. 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 nephroblastoma a common word?

nephroblastoma 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.