osteoma

1. 1.

   a slow growing benign tumor of consisting of bone tissue; usually on the skull or mandible

   Broaderbenign tumor

Other forms of osteoma

plural

osteomata

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 osteoma

What does osteoma mean?

osteoma means "a slow growing benign tumor of consisting of bone tissue; usually on the skull or mandible".

How many syllables are in osteoma?

osteoma has 4 syllables: o-ste-o-ma. The stress falls on "ste".

Is osteoma a common word?

osteoma 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.