radiosensitive

1. 1.

   sensitive to radiation

   “radiosensitive cancer cells can be treated with radiotherapy”

   Similarsensitive

Questions about radiosensitive

What does radiosensitive mean?

radiosensitive means "sensitive to radiation".

How many syllables are in radiosensitive?

radiosensitive has 6 syllables and divides as ra-di-o-sen-si-tive 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.

Is radiosensitive a common word?

radiosensitive 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.