osteoporosis
nounHow many syllables in osteoporosis?
There are 6 syllables in the word osteoporosis.How to pronounce osteoporosis:
Definition of osteoporosis:
- osteoporosis (noun):
- abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium; most common in postmenopausal women.
- a condition that affects especially older women and is characterized by decrease in bone mass with decreased density and enlargement of bone spaces producing porosity and fragility
Synonyms for osteoporosis:
pathology
Here are some other common 6-syllable words.
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- Cassiopeia
- enthusiastically
- unhesitatingly
- lackadaisically
- meteorology
- incomprehensibly
- irreconcilable
- eligibility
- circumambulation
- dissimilarities
- exemplification
- artificiality
- insatiability
- nonagenarian
- quadragenarian
- axis-of-abscissas
- characterization
- mycodermatitis
- practicability
- sesquipedalian
- unfashionable
- reconciliation
- paraphernalia
- materialism
- achievability
- pistanthrophobia
- unmentionable
- incommunicable
- unsophisticated
- interrelationship
- categorically
- mucoperiosteum
- paleontologist
- integumentary
- diametrically
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- catastrophically
- individually
- equalitarian
- undecipherable
- inextinguishable
- ceruminolytic
- fictionality
- nonconfrontational
- biodegradable
- extracurricular
- idiosyncratic
- satisfactorily
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