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autosplenectomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
au-tosplenec-to-my
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Disease-induced progressive shrinkage and nonfunctionalisation of the spleen.

Etymology

From auto- + splenectomy.

Inflected Forms

autosplenectomies (plural)

Derived Forms

autosplenectomize

Questions

What does autosplenectomy mean?
Disease-induced progressive shrinkage and nonfunctionalisation of the spleen.
Where does autosplenectomy come from?
From auto- + splenectomy.

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