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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.
stypsis is a noun meaning "the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids". It carries one recorded sense.
the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids
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 stypsis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.