tendosynovitis

Questions about tendosynovitis

What does tendosynovitis mean?

tendosynovitis means "inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath".

How many syllables are in tendosynovitis?

tendosynovitis has 6 syllables and divides as ten-do-sy-no-vi-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.

What is another word for tendosynovitis?

Close synonyms include tenosynovitis, tendonous synovitis. 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 tendosynovitis a common word?

tendosynovitis 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.