scleroderma

Other forms of scleroderma

plural

sclerodermas·

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 scleroderma

What does scleroderma mean?

scleroderma means "an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scleroderma?

scleroderma has 4 syllables: scler-o-der-ma. The stress falls on "der". In IPA it is /ˌsklɪɹəˈdɝmə/.

What is another word for scleroderma?

Close synonyms include dermatosclerosis, genus Scleroderma. 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 scleroderma a common word?

scleroderma 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.

What rhymes with scleroderma?

1 word rhymes with scleroderma. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.