polyneuritis

Questions about polyneuritis

What does polyneuritis mean?

polyneuritis means "inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy)".

How many syllables are in polyneuritis?

polyneuritis has 6 syllables and divides as po-ly-ne-u-ri-tis 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 polyneuritis?

Close synonyms include multiple neuritis. 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 polyneuritis a common word?

polyneuritis 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.