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单词 -osis
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
-osis, 
  1. a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states (hypnosis;
    leukocytosis;
    osmosis    ), esp. disorders or abnormal states (chlorosis;
    neurofibromatosis;
    tuberculosis    ). Cf. -otic. 
  • on the model of Greek borrowings ending in Greek -ōsis, as sklērōsis sclerosis, derived origin, originally from verbs ending in the formative -o- (-ō- in noun, nominal derivatives), with the suffix -sis -sis

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-osis suffix forming nouns
  1. indicating a process or state: metamorphosis
  2. indicating a diseased condition: tuberculosis
    Compare -iasis
  3. indicating the formation or development of something: fibrosis
Etymology: from Greek, suffix used to form nouns from verbs with infinitives in -oein or -oun
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