uraemia

Questions about uraemia

What does uraemia mean?

uraemia means "accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine".

How many syllables are in uraemia?

uraemia has 5 syllables and divides as u-ra-e-mi-a 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 uraemia?

Close synonyms include uremia, azotemia, azotaemia. 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 uraemia a common word?

uraemia 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.