sporotrichosis

1. 1.

   a chronic fungal infection of the skin and lymph nodes

   Broaderfungal infection

Other forms of sporotrichosis

plural

sporotrichosises·

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 sporotrichosis

What does sporotrichosis mean?

sporotrichosis means "a chronic fungal infection of the skin and lymph nodes".

How many syllables are in sporotrichosis?

sporotrichosis has 5 syllables and divides as spo-ro-tri-cho-sis 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.