HOW TO PRONOUNCE
osteoporosis
/ˌɔstiˌɑpɚˈoʊsɪs/
Press play to hear how to pronounce osteoporosis.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:05
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
LISTEN FOR THIS
Let “roh” carry the main beat.
A long word can have smaller beats before its main stress. Work backward from the stressed oh sound, then add the earlier syllables without speeding through them.
6 syllables · Stress on syllable 5
TRY SAYING
“She asked about a screening test for osteoporosis.”
APG practice sentence · CC BY-SA 4.0
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does osteoporosis mean?
noun
- A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˌɔstiˌɑpɚˈoʊsɪs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
This process of rarefaction or absorption of bone tissue may be confined to quite a small portion, or it may be spread over the whole of the bone, rendering it more porous than is normal, but stopping short of complete destruction of the bone tissue (a condition which is sometimes known as inflammatory osteoporosis (see Fig.