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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
stylostixis is a noun meaning "treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin". It carries one recorded sense.
treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin
China
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stylostixis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.