How many syllables in coccidioidomycosis?

There are 9 syllables in the word coccidioidomycosis.

How to pronounce coccidioidomycosis:

coccidioidomycosis (noun):: the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms.; a disease especially of humans and domestic animals that is caused by inhalation of spores from either of two fungi (coccidioides immitis or c. posadasii) found in dry soils of the southwestern u.s., mexico, and central america and that may be asymptomatic or present as a mild to serious flu-like illness marked chiefly by fever, cough, sore throat, headache, fatigue, and pneumonia but sometimes becoming disseminated beyond the lungs especially to the skin, bones, joints, and meninges resulting in painful lesions, swollen joints, or meningitis

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bilharziasis

coccidiomycosis

cross infection

desert rheumatism

enterobiasis

eye infection

felon

focal infection

health problem

hordeolum

ill health

incubation

itch

lockjaw

nonsocial infection

opportunistic infection

paronychia

protozoal infection

respiratory tract infection

scabies

schistosomiasis

sepsis

septic sore throat

sore

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