pneumogastric

Other forms of pneumogastric

plural

pneumogastrics·

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 pneumogastric

What does pneumogastric mean?

pneumogastric means "of or relating to the vagus nerve". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pneumogastric?

pneumogastric has 5 syllables and divides as pne-u-mo-ga-stric 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 pneumogastric?

Close synonyms include vagal, vagus, vagus nerve, nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve. 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 pneumogastric a common word?

pneumogastric 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.