-osis

suffix

Osis is defined as state, diseased condition or increase.

An example of the -osis suffix is narcosis, meaning a state of unconsciousness caused by a drug.
An example of the -osis suffix is cirrhosis, meaning an organ, usually the liver, in a diseased state.
An example of the -osis suffix is fibrosis, meaning an increase in fibrous tissue in an injured part of the body.

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-osis

state, condition, action: hypnosis
an abnormal or diseased condition: psychosis, mycosis
increase or formation: leukocytosis

Origin of -osis

Classical Latin from Classical Greek -?sis from -?-, -o-, ending of preceding verbal or substantive stem + -sis

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-osis

suffix

Condition; process; action: osmosis.
Diseased or abnormal condition: acidosis.
Increase; formation: leukocytosis.

Origin of -osis

Latin -ōsis from Greek n. suff

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A suffix that means:
Diseased condition, as in tuberculosis.
Condition or process, as in osmosis.

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Suffix

(pathology) functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
process, action
formation, increase

Origin

From Ancient Greek -Î¿ÏƒÎ¹Ï‚ ("-osis"; state, condition, or action).

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