osteoclasis

1. 1.

   treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a bone

   Broadertreatment

Other forms of osteoclasis

plural

osteoclasises·

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 osteoclasis

What does osteoclasis mean?

osteoclasis means "treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a bone".

How many syllables are in osteoclasis?

osteoclasis has 5 syllables: o-ste-o-cla-sis. The stress falls on "o".

Is osteoclasis a common word?

osteoclasis 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.