English Explanatory Dictionary

-osis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
  2. process, action such as phagocytosis
  3. formation, increase such as leukocytosis

Pronunciation

/-əʊ.sɪs/ /-oʊ.sɪs/ /-əʉ.sɪs/ /-ɐʉ.səs/

Word forms

-osis -oses

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin -ōsis, from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).

Related words

-exia -iasis -itis -otic Template:Helminthiases

Translations

Bulgarian: -о́за Catalan: -osi Chinese Mandarin: 症 Czech: -óza Dutch: -ose Esperanto: -ozo Finnish: -oosi French: -ose Galician: -ose German: -ose Hungarian: -ózis Interlingua: -osis Irish: -óis Japanese: 症 Latin: -ōsis Occitan: -osi Polish: -oza Portuguese: -ose Russian: -оз Spanish: -osis
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