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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
prostatitis is a noun meaning "inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever". It carries one recorded sense.
inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prostatitis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.