tuberculoid

1. 1.

   resembling tuberculosis

   “tuberculoid lesions”

   “tuberculoid leprosy”

Questions about tuberculoid

What does tuberculoid mean?

tuberculoid means "resembling tuberculosis".

How many syllables are in tuberculoid?

tuberculoid has 4 syllables and divides as tu-ber-cu-loid 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.

Is tuberculoid a common word?

tuberculoid 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.