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: neph-ro-bla-sto-ma. The stress falls on "bla".

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.