phlebitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs)

   Broaderinflammation

   Narrowerthrombophlebitis

Other forms of phlebitis

plural

phlebitises·

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 phlebitis

What does phlebitis mean?

phlebitis means "inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs)".

How many syllables are in phlebitis?

phlebitis has 3 syllables: phle-bi-tis. The stress falls on "bi". In IPA it is /fləˈbaɪtɪs/.

Is phlebitis a common word?

phlebitis 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.