radiculitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the radicle of a nerve

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of radiculitis

plural

radiculitises·

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 radiculitis

What does radiculitis mean?

radiculitis means "inflammation of the radicle of a nerve".

How many syllables are in radiculitis?

radiculitis has 5 syllables and divides as ra-di-cu-li-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.