Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rhabdomyoma

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rhab-domy-oma
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A non-cancerous tumor of skeletal muscle.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Rhabdomyoma is the most common of primary cardiac neoplasms found in infants and children. It is rare in adults. Fifty per cent of patients with rhabdomyoma also have tuberous sclerosis—a familial disease consisting of epilepsy, mental retardation, and adenoma sebaceum."

Etymology

After German Rhabdomyoma; equivalent to rhabdo- + myoma.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Prefix: rhabdo
Root: Rhabdomyoma

Usage

Inflected Forms

rhabdomyomas (plural) rhabdomyomata (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

rhabdomyoblast rhabdomyoid rhabdomyomatous rhabdomyosarcoma

Questions

What does rhabdomyoma mean?: A non-cancerous tumor of skeletal muscle.
Where does rhabdomyoma come from?: It is traced to German.

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