neurohypophysis

Other forms of neurohypophysis

plural

neurohypophyses

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 neurohypophysis

What does neurohypophysis mean?

neurohypophysis means "the posterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature".

How many syllables are in neurohypophysis?

neurohypophysis has 7 syllables and divides as ne-u-ro-hy-po-phy-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 neurohypophysis?

Close synonyms include posterior pituitary, posterior pituitary gland, pars nervosa. 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 neurohypophysis a common word?

neurohypophysis 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.