Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pancreatic insufficiency

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: pan-cre-at-ic in-suf-fi-cien-cy
IPA

42

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

8

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The inability to properly digest food due to a lack of specialized enzymes produced by the pancreas.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

pancreatic insufficiencies (plural)

Questions

What does pancreatic insufficiency mean?: The inability to properly digest food due to a lack of specialized enzymes produced by the pancreas.

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