rhabdosarcoma

Questions about rhabdosarcoma

What does rhabdosarcoma mean?

rhabdosarcoma means "a highly malignant neoplasm derived from striated muscle".

How many syllables are in rhabdosarcoma?

rhabdosarcoma has 5 syllables and divides as rhab-do-sar-co-ma 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 rhabdosarcoma?

Close synonyms include rhabdomyosarcoma. 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 rhabdosarcoma a common word?

rhabdosarcoma 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.