pregnanediol

1. 1.

   a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women

   Broadercompound

Other forms of pregnanediol

plural

pregnanediols·

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 pregnanediol

What does pregnanediol mean?

pregnanediol means "a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women".

How many syllables are in pregnanediol?

pregnanediol has 5 syllables: preg-na-ne-di-ol. The stress falls on "ne".

Is pregnanediol a common word?

pregnanediol 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.