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-asis

  1. a suffix occurring in scientific, especially medical, words from Greek:

    psoriasis.



-asis

suffix forming nouns

  1. a variant of -iasis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -asis1

< Latin < Greek -iā- verb stem + -sis -sis

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