-osis
UK/-əʊ.sɪs/US/-oʊ.sɪs/
-osis suffix: functional disease or condition such as hepatosis.
Suffix
-osis (noun-forming suffix, plural -oses)
- functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
- process, action such as phagocytosis
- formation, increase such as leukocytosis
Forms of -osis
| plural | -oses |
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Origin of -osis
Learned borrowing from New Latin -ōsis, from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).
Words that rhyme with -osis
- apotheosis
- symbiosis
- abiosis
- diagnosis
- gnosis
- hypnosis
- lordosis
- arthrosis
- cytosis
- kyphosis
- meiosis
- osmosis
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- prognosis
- sclerosis
- stenosis
- synostosis
- theosis
- acanthocytosis
- acanthosis
- acidosis
- adiposis
- aerobiosis
- alkalosis
- amyloidosis
- anadiplosis
- anostosis
- aponeurosis
- apoptosis
- endocytosis
- exocytosis
- halitosis
- hemochromatosis
- ichthyosis
- koilocytosis
- lactosis
- leukoerythroblastosis
- miosis
- mitosis
- mononucleosis
- mycosis
- neoatherosclerosis
- neurosis
- ochronosis
- osteophytosis
- osteoporosis
- parahypnosis
- phagocytosis
- pinocytosis
- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
- potocytosis
- probiosis
- psychosis
- ptosis
- pyrosis
- retrognosis
- rubatosis
- silicosis
- simuliotoxicosis
- synchondrosis
- syndesmosis
Questions about -osis
- What does -osis mean?
- -osis means functional disease or condition such as hepatosis.
- What part of speech is -osis?
- -osis is a suffix.
- How do you pronounce -osis?
- -osis is pronounced /-əʊ.sɪs/ (UK).
Words near -osis in the dictionary
Source and license
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