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-osis
-osissuff.1. Condition; process; action: osmosis.2. Diseased or abnormal condition: acidosis.3. Increase; formation: leukocytosis.
[Latin -ōsis, from Greek, n. suff.]-osis suffix forming nouns 1. indicating a process or state: metamorphosis. 2. (Pathology) indicating a diseased condition: tuberculosis. Compare -iasis 3. indicating the formation or development of something: fibrosis. [from Greek, suffix used to form nouns from verbs with infinitives in -oein or -oun]-osis a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states (hypnosis; osmosis), esp. disorders or abnormal states (neurofibromatosis; tuberculosis). Compare -otic. [on the model of Greek borrowings ending in Greek -ōsis, derived orig. from verbs ending in the formative -o- (-ō- in n. derivatives), with the suffix -sis -sis] -osis1. A suffix that means:2. Diseased condition, as in tuberculosis.3. Condition or process, as in osmosis.
-osis
-osis word element [Gr.], disease, morbid state; abnormal increase.-osis, pl. -oses Nouns ending in -osis typically form adjectives ending in -otic. Thus, cyanosis-cyanotic, dyskaryosis-dyskaryotic.Suffix meaning a process, condition, or state, usually abnormal or diseased; production or increase, physiologic or pathologic; an invasion or infestation; in the latter sense, it is similar to and often interchangeable with Greek -iasis, as seen in trichinosis, trichiniasis. [G.] -osis, pl. -osesCombining form meaning a process, condition, or state, usually abnormal or diseased; production of an abnormal substance, increase of a normal substance, or parasitic infestation. [G.]-osis Suffix denoting a process or activity, an increase in, a disease or pathological process, or a non-inflammatory process.-osis suffix denoting affected with a state, condition, abnormal process, for example CIRRHOSIS. |