ophthalmoscopy

1. 1.

   examination of the interior of an eye using an ophthalmoscope

   Broaderexamination

Other forms of ophthalmoscopy

plural

ophthalmoscopies·

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 ophthalmoscopy

What does ophthalmoscopy mean?

ophthalmoscopy means "examination of the interior of an eye using an ophthalmoscope".

How many syllables are in ophthalmoscopy?

ophthalmoscopy has 5 syllables and divides as oph-thal-mo-sco-py 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.