valvulitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of a valve (especially of a cardiac valve as a consequence of rheumatic fever)

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of valvulitis

plural

valvulitises·

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 valvulitis

What does valvulitis mean?

valvulitis means "inflammation of a valve (especially of a cardiac valve as a consequence of rheumatic fever)".

How many syllables are in valvulitis?

valvulitis has 4 syllables: val-vu-li-tis. The stress falls on "vu".

Is valvulitis a common word?

valvulitis 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.