thyrotoxicosis

Questions about thyrotoxicosis

What does thyrotoxicosis mean?

thyrotoxicosis means "an overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive production of thyroid hormones".

How many syllables are in thyrotoxicosis?

thyrotoxicosis has 6 syllables and divides as thy-ro-tox-i-co-sis 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 thyrotoxicosis?

Close synonyms include hyperthyroidism. 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 thyrotoxicosis a common word?

thyrotoxicosis 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.