splenitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the spleen

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of splenitis

plural

splenitises·

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 splenitis

What does splenitis mean?

splenitis means "inflammation of the spleen".

How many syllables are in splenitis?

splenitis has 3 syllables and divides as sple-ni-tis 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.