pneumocytosis

Questions about pneumocytosis

What does pneumocytosis mean?

pneumocytosis means "pneumonia occurring in infants or in persons with impaired immune systems (as AIDS victims)".

How many syllables are in pneumocytosis?

pneumocytosis has 6 syllables and divides as pne-u-mo-cy-to-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 pneumocytosis?

Close synonyms include pneumocystis pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, interstitial plasma cell pneumonia. 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 pneumocytosis a common word?

pneumocytosis 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.