teratoma

1. 1.

   a tumor consisting of a mixture of tissues not normally found at that site

   Broadertumor

Other forms of teratoma

plural

teratomas·

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 teratoma

What does teratoma mean?

teratoma means "a tumor consisting of a mixture of tissues not normally found at that site".

How many syllables are in teratoma?

teratoma has 4 syllables: te-ra-to-ma. The stress falls on "ra".

Is teratoma a common word?

teratoma 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.