How many syllables in tuberculosis?

There are 5 syllables in the word tuberculosis.

Divide tuberculosis into syllables:

tuberculosis (noun):: an infectious disease characterized by the formation of tubercles, esp. in the lungs; infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages).; a highly variable communicable disease of humans and some other vertebrates that is caused by the tubercle bacillus and rarely in the u.s. by a related mycobacterium (mycobacterium bovis), that affects especially the lungs but may spread to other areas (such as the kidney or spinal column), and that is characterized by fever, cough, difficulty in breathing, formation of tubercles, caseation, pleural effusions, and fibrosis

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