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nocardiosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
no-car-dio-sis
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An infectious disease affecting either the lungs or the whole body, caused by infection by bacteria of the genus Nocardia.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From translingual Nocardia + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

nocardioses (plural)

Questions

What does nocardiosis mean?
An infectious disease affecting either the lungs or the whole body, caused by infection by bacteria of the genus Nocardia.
Where does nocardiosis come from?
From translingual Nocardia + -osis.

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