sclerosis

Other forms of sclerosis

plural

scleroses

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 sclerosis

What does sclerosis mean?

sclerosis means "any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue".

How many syllables are in sclerosis?

sclerosis has 3 syllables: scle-ro-sis. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /sklɚˈoʊsəs/.

What is another word for sclerosis?

Close synonyms include induration. 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 sclerosis a common word?

sclerosis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 sclerosis?

6 words rhyme with sclerosis. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.