neurinoma

1. 1.

   tumor (usually benign) of the sheath surrounding a nerve

   Broaderbenign tumor

Other forms of neurinoma

plural

neurinomas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about neurinoma

What does neurinoma mean?

neurinoma means "tumor (usually benign) of the sheath surrounding a nerve".

How many syllables are in neurinoma?

neurinoma has 5 syllables and divides as ne-u-ri-no-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.