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retrosigmoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ret-rosig-moid
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Via the sigmoid colon in a direction from lower to upper

Etymology

From retro- + sigmoid.

Word Breakdown

Rhymes With

parasigmoid

Questions

What does retrosigmoid mean?
Via the sigmoid colon in a direction from lower to upper
Where does retrosigmoid come from?
From retro- + sigmoid.

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