chylothorax
noun
chylothorax is a noun meaning “An accumulation of chyle in the pleural cavity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-Y-L-O-T-H-O-R-A-X, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chylothorax is chylothoraces.
What does chylothorax mean?
noun
- 1
An accumulation of chyle in the pleural cavity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chylothorax
- chylothoraces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chylothorax?
Chylothorax appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chylothorax come from?
From chylo- + thorax.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).