stenosis

English

Etymology

From New Latin stenōsis, from Ancient Greek στένωσις (sténōsis, “narrowing”), from στενόω (stenóō, “to confine, to contract”) +‎ -σις (-sis, nominal suffix), equivalent to steno- +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɪˈnəʊ.sɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /stəˈnoʊ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

stenosis (countable and uncountable, plural stenoses)

1. (medicine, pathology) An abnormal narrowing or stricture in a blood vessel or other tubular organ.
2. A reduction in either mental or physical capacity.

Derived terms

• antirestenosis
• bronchostenosis
• craniostenosis
• dacryostenosis
• fibrostenosis
• homeostenosis
• pyloric stenosis
• restenosis
• stenotic

 

Translations

abnormal narrowing or stricture in a blood vessel or other tubular organ

• Arabic: تَضَيُّق (taḍayyuq)
• Catalan: estenosi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狹窄 / 狭窄 (zh) (xiázhǎi), 狹窄症 / 狭窄症 (xiázhǎizhèng)

• Czech: stenóza (cs) f
• Dutch: adervernauwing
• Finnish: ahtauma, stenoosi (fi)
• French: sténose (fr)
• German: Stenose (de) f
• Hungarian: sztenózis, szűkület (hu)
• Malay:

  Rumi: stenosis

• Portuguese: estenose f, coarctação f
• Slovak: stenóza (sk) f
• Spanish: estenosis (es) f
• Swedish: stenos (sv) c
• Ukrainian: стено́з m (stenóz)

Anagrams

• Ossetins, Sisseton

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στένωσις (sténōsis, “narrowing”), from στενόω (stenóō, “to confine, to contract”) +‎ -σις (-sis, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /steˈno.sis/, [st̪eˈnɔːs̬is]

Noun

stenōsis f (genitive stenōsis); third declension

1. A narrowing.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	stenōsis	stenōsēs
genitive	stenōsis	stenōsium
dative	stenōsī	stenōsibus
accusative	stenōsem	stenōsēs stenōsīs
ablative	stenōse	stenōsibus
vocative	stenōsis	stenōsēs

Descendants

• → English: stenosis