thrombolysis
noun
thrombolysis is a noun meaning “The breaking down of blood clots by pharmacological or other means” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-L-Y-S-I-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does thrombolysis mean?
noun
- 1
The breaking down of blood clots by pharmacological or other means.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thrombolysis?
- US
Thrombolysis has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-thrombolysis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is thrombolysis?
Thrombolysis appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 thrombolysis come from?
From thrombo- + -lysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).