toxoplasmosis

1. 1.

   infection caused by parasites transmitted to humans from infected cats; if contracted by a pregnant woman it can result in serious damage to the fetus

   Broaderinfection

Other forms of toxoplasmosis

plural

toxoplasmosises·

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 toxoplasmosis

What does toxoplasmosis mean?

toxoplasmosis means "infection caused by parasites transmitted to humans from infected cats; if contracted by a pregnant woman it can result in serious damage to the fetus".

How many syllables are in toxoplasmosis?

toxoplasmosis has 5 syllables: tox-o-pla-smo-sis. The stress falls on "pla".

Is toxoplasmosis a common word?

toxoplasmosis 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.