thrombophlebitis

1. 1.

   phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus)

   Broaderphlebitis

Other forms of thrombophlebitis

plural

thrombophlebitises·

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 thrombophlebitis

What does thrombophlebitis mean?

thrombophlebitis means "phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus)".

How many syllables are in thrombophlebitis?

thrombophlebitis has 5 syllables and divides as throm-boph-le-bi-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.