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-osis
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-osis
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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World English Dictionary
| -osis | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | indicating a process or state: metamorphosis |
| 2. | Compare -iasis indicating a diseased condition: tuberculosis |
| 3. | indicating the formation or development of something: fibrosis |
| [from Greek, suffix used to form nouns from verbs with infinitives in -oein or -oun] | |
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Word Origin & History
-osis
suffix expressing state or condition, in medical terminology denoting "a state of disease," from L. -osis, from Gk. -osis, formed from the aorist of verbs ending in -o. It corresponds to L. -atio.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
-osis suff.
Condition; process; action: osmosis.
Diseased or abnormal condition: neurosis.
Increase; formation: leukocytosis.
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Science Dictionary
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