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-asis

American  

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

    psoriasis.
-asis British  

suffix

  1. a variant of -iasis

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Etymology

Origin of -asis

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

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