Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transmural

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: trans-mu-ral
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

beyond a city wall

adj

passing through the wall of an organ or any other bodily structure

Example Sentences

"However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement)."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English mural English transmural From trans- + mural.

Derived Forms

nontransmural transmurally

Phrases

transmural care

Questions

What does transmural mean?: beyond a city wall
Where does transmural come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English mural English transmural From trans- + mural.

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