osteopetrosis

Questions about osteopetrosis

What does osteopetrosis mean?

osteopetrosis means "an inherited disorder characterized by an increase in bone density; in severe forms the bone marrow cavity may be obliterated".

How many syllables are in osteopetrosis?

osteopetrosis has 6 syllables and divides as o-ste-o-pe-tro-sis 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.

What is another word for osteopetrosis?

Close synonyms include Albers-Schonberg disease, marble bones disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is osteopetrosis a common word?

osteopetrosis 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for osteopetrosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.