a disease, esp. of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterizedin serious cases by weakness and anemia
Word origin
[1910–15; ‹ NL, equiv. to Strongyl(us) strongyle + -ōsis-osis]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: carbon cycle, coverage, homeroom, insulin, payoff-osis is a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states (hypnosis; leukocytosis; osmosis), esp. disorders or abnormal states (chlorosis; neurofibromatosis; tuberculosis)