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-omatosis

-omatosis suffix: used to form a noun indicating a condition characterized by abnormal growth, tumors, or masses.

Suffix

-omatosis

  1. Used to form a noun indicating a condition characterized by abnormal growth, tumors, or masses.
    • adenoma + -omatosis → adenomatosis (“cancer characterized by multiple adenomas”)
    • chondroma + -omatosis → chondromatosis (“disease characterized by multiple chondromas”)

Origin of -omatosis

By surface analysis, -om(a) + -osis.

Words formed from -omatosis

Questions about -omatosis

What does -omatosis mean?
-omatosis means used to form a noun indicating a condition characterized by abnormal growth, tumors, or masses.
What part of speech is -omatosis?
-omatosis is a suffix.

Words near -omatosis in the dictionary

  1. -olol
  2. -olone
  3. -oma
  4. -omas
  5. -omata
  6. -omatosis
  7. -omatous
  8. -ome
  9. -ometer
  10. -ometry
  11. -omia

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