osteoblastoma

1. 1.

   benign tumor of bone and fibrous tissue; occurs in the vertebrae or femur or tibia or arm bones (especially in young adults)

   Broaderbenign tumor

Other forms of osteoblastoma

plural

osteoblastomas·

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 osteoblastoma

What does osteoblastoma mean?

osteoblastoma means "benign tumor of bone and fibrous tissue; occurs in the vertebrae or femur or tibia or arm bones (especially in young adults)".

How many syllables are in osteoblastoma?

osteoblastoma has 6 syllables and divides as o-ste-o-bla-sto-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.