self-limited

1. 1.

   relating to a disease that tends to run a definite course without treatment

   medicine

Questions about self-limited

What does self-limited mean?

self-limited means "relating to a disease that tends to run a definite course without treatment".

How many syllables are in self-limited?

self-limited has 4 syllables and divides as sel-f-li-mi-ted 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 self-limited a common word?

self-limited 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.