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intramedullary

adjective

intramedullary is an adjective meaning “Inside the medulla” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-R-A-M-E-D-U-L-L-A-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does intramedullary mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Inside the medulla

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is intramedullary?

Intramedullary appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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).

How do you abbreviate intramedullary?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of intramedullary: IM.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does intramedullary come from?

From intra- + medullary.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).