thrombophlebitis
noun
thrombophlebitis is a noun meaning “Phlebitis related to a blood clot or thrombus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-P-H-L-E-B-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thrombophlebitis is thrombophlebitides.
What does thrombophlebitis mean?
noun
- 1
Phlebitis related to a blood clot or thrombus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thrombophlebitis
- thrombophlebitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thrombophlebitis?
Thrombophlebitis appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).
Thrombophlebitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of phlebitis:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | tromboflebitis |
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 thrombophlebitis come from?
From thrombo- + phlebitis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).