steatocystoma

1. 1.

   a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

   Synonymssebaceous cystpilar cystwen

   Broadercyst

   Narrowerchalazion

Other forms of steatocystoma

plural

steatocystomas·

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 steatocystoma

What does steatocystoma mean?

steatocystoma means "a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked".

How many syllables are in steatocystoma?

steatocystoma has 6 syllables: ste-a-to-cy-sto-ma. The stress falls on "cy".

What is another word for steatocystoma?

Close synonyms include sebaceous cyst, pilar cyst, wen. 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 steatocystoma a common word?

steatocystoma 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.