Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

murphy-lane bone skid

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: mur-phy-lane bone skid
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

3

Syllables

16

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A steel instrument used for femoral head procedures.

Etymology

Named after the American surgeon John Benjamin Murphy.

Inflected Forms

Murphy-Lane bone skids (plural)

Questions

What does murphy-lane bone skid mean?: A steel instrument used for femoral head procedures.
Where does murphy-lane bone skid come from?: Named after the American surgeon John Benjamin Murphy.

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