sequela

1. 1.

   any abnormality following or resulting from a disease or injury or treatment

   “paralysis is one of the sequelae of poliomyelitis”

   Broaderabnormality

Other forms of sequela

plural

sequelae

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 sequela

What does sequela mean?

sequela means "any abnormality following or resulting from a disease or injury or treatment".

How many syllables are in sequela?

sequela has 3 syllables and divides as seq-ue-la 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.