thromboembolism

1. 1.

   occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus

   Broaderocclusion

Other forms of thromboembolism

plural

thromboembolisms·

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 thromboembolism

What does thromboembolism mean?

thromboembolism means "occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus".

How many syllables are in thromboembolism?

thromboembolism has 5 syllables and divides as throm-bo-em-bo-lism 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.