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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.
rhinitis is a noun meaning "an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge)". It carries one recorded sense.
an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose (usually associated with nasal discharge)
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 rhinitis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.