-osis

-osis
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.]

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suffix denoting
1. a diseased condition. Examples: nephrosis (of the kidney); leptospirosis (caused by Leptospira species).
2. any condition. Example: narcosis (of stupor).
3. an increase or excess. Example: leucocytosis (of leucocytes).

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[Gr.] a word termination denoting a process, especially a disease or morbid process, and sometimes conveying the meaning of abnormal increase. See also -sis.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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