furunculosis
noun
furunculosis is a noun meaning “The presence of furuncles or boils” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-U-N-C-U-L-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furunculosis is furunculoses.
What does furunculosis mean?
noun
- 1
The presence of furuncles or boils.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of furunculosis
- furunculoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is furunculosis?
Furunculosis appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 furunculosis come from?
From furuncle + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).