nephrolithiasis

Questions about nephrolithiasis

What does nephrolithiasis mean?

nephrolithiasis means "the presence of kidney stones (calculi) in the kidney".

How many syllables are in nephrolithiasis?

nephrolithiasis has 6 syllables and divides as neph-ro-li-thi-a-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 nephrolithiasis?

Close synonyms include renal lithiasis. 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 nephrolithiasis a common word?

nephrolithiasis 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.