dysbiosis
noun
dysbiosis is a noun meaning “A medical condition caused by microbial imbalances within the body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-Y-S-B-I-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dysbiosis is dysbioses.
What does dysbiosis mean?
noun
- 1
A medical condition caused by microbial imbalances within the body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce dysbiosis?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-dysbiosis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dysbiosis
- dysbioses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dysbiosis?
Dysbiosis appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Dysbiosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense medical condition caused by microbial imbalances within the body – see also dysb:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Dysbiose |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dysbiosis come from?
From Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) and βίωσις (bíōsis, “way of living”); the intended meaning of the compound word is contrasted with symbiosis - a relationship of mutual benefit. By surface analysis, dys- + -biosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).