neurolysin

Other forms of neurolysin

plural

neurolysins·

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 neurolysin

What does neurolysin mean?

neurolysin means "any toxin that affects neural tissues".

How many syllables are in neurolysin?

neurolysin has 5 syllables: ne-u-ro-ly-sin. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for neurolysin?

Close synonyms include neurotoxin. 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 neurolysin a common word?

neurolysin 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.