| -osis suff. 1. Condition; process; action: osmosis. 2. Diseased or abnormal condition: neurosis. 3. Increase; formation: leukocytosis. [Latin -  sis, from Greek, n. suff.] |
-osis
suffix forming nouns
1. indicating a process or state metamorphosis
2. (Medicine / 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 1. A suffix that means: 2. Diseased condition, as in tuberculosis. 3. Condition or process, as in osmosis. |
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