Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudoglandular

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-dog-lan-du-lar
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having some characteristics of glands (used especially to describe a phase in the development of the embryonic lung before ciliated cells are formed)

Example Sentences

"For example, several isoforms of RAR and RXR are upregulated during the pseudoglandular phase in the fetal mouse lung [29 ,30 ]."

Etymology

From pseudo- + glandular.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo

Frequently Paired Words

pseudogland

Rhymes With

lymphoglandular dermoglandular hypoglandular villoglandular triglandular quadriglandular

Questions

What does pseudoglandular mean?: Having some characteristics of glands (used especially to describe a phase in the development of the embryonic lung before ciliated cells are formed)
Where does pseudoglandular come from?: From pseudo- + glandular.

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