Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ingluviolith

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-glu-vi-o-lith
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A foreign body in the crop of a bird.

Example Sentences

"Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies."

Etymology

From ingluvies + -o- + -lith.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: ingluvies
Suffix: -o-

Inflected Forms

ingluvioliths (plural)

Questions

What does ingluviolith mean?: A foreign body in the crop of a bird.
Where does ingluviolith come from?: From ingluvies + -o- + -lith.

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