Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sparganosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sparganosis
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A parasitic infection caused by the plerocercoid larvae of diphyllobothroid tapeworms in the genus Spirometra.

noun

Alternative form of spargosis (“distention of the breasts with milk”).

Inflected Forms

sparganoses (plural)

Derived Forms

neurosparganosis

Questions

What does sparganosis mean?: A parasitic infection caused by the plerocercoid larvae of diphyllobothroid tapeworms in the genus Spirometra.

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