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say it: thrahm-BOH-suhs
thrombosis is a noun meaning "the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel". It is pronounced /θɹɑmˈboʊsəs/ — thrahm-BOH-suhs. It carries one recorded sense.
the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel
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 thrombosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.