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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.
otosclerosis is a noun meaning "hereditary disorder in which ossification of the labyrinth of the inner ear causes tinnitus and eventual deafness". It carries one recorded sense.
hereditary disorder in which ossification of the labyrinth of the inner ear causes tinnitus and eventual deafness
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 otosclerosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.