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say it: nuur-oh-fahy-broh-muh-TOH-sis
neurofibromatosis is a noun meaning "autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalities". It is pronounced /ˌnʊɹoʊfaɪˌbɹoʊməˈtoʊsɪs/ — nuur-oh-fahy-broh-muh-TOH-sis. It carries one recorded sense.
autosomal dominant disease characterized by numerous neurofibromas and by spots on the skin and often by developmental abnormalities
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for neurofibromatosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.