photoretinitis

1. 1.

   damage to the retina resulting from exposure of the eye to the sun without adequate protection

   Broadervisual impairment

Other forms of photoretinitis

plural

photoretinitises·

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 photoretinitis

What does photoretinitis mean?

photoretinitis means "damage to the retina resulting from exposure of the eye to the sun without adequate protection".

How many syllables are in photoretinitis?

photoretinitis has 6 syllables: pho-to-re-ti-ni-tis. The stress falls on "ti".

Is photoretinitis a common word?

photoretinitis 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.