Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

circumfoveal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cir-cum-foveal
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Around the fovea

Example Sentences

"The concentration of more central tumors progressed by age quartiles in a roughly circumfoveal trajectory from superotemporal to inferotemporal to inferonasal to nasal meridian, with an increasing average eccentricity."

Etymology

From circum- + foveal.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: circum

Questions

What does circumfoveal mean?: Around the fovea
Where does circumfoveal come from?: From circum- + foveal.

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