it's actually just a bunch of Greek or Latin prefixes put together. you'll see it heaps when you study biology. most don't even exist in standard dictionary.
Here's what I can make out of that word by looking at it but I won't ever remember the entire word. lol
hepatic - liver
chol - bile duct (in liver)
angio - blood vessel
chole - bile duct
enteros - intestine
tomy - surgery
and usually you just pronounce the prefixes per se and make your way across the entire word because it's too long to assign a stressed syllabus.
even for a simple word like aldosterone, different lecturers said it in two different ways with stress placed on the second and third syllable, respectively. so pronunciation in the medical field is really flexible because they can infer it from the context. if you say "aldosterone" from the adrenal cortex is part of sodium homeostatic mechanism, they immediately know what you're on about even though you attempt another variant that places stress on the first syllable. xD
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