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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
osteolysis is a noun meaning "lysis of bone caused by disease or infection or inadequate blood supply". It carries one recorded sense.
lysis of bone caused by disease or infection or inadequate blood supply
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for osteolysis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.