Health and Medicine: osis (diseased condition)

Learn this list of words ending with osis meaning "process" or "condition" of a disease.
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  1. tuberculosis
    infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of bacilli
  2. neurosis
    a mental illness that makes you behave in an unusual way
  3. psychosis
    severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost
  4. sclerosis
    any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue
  5. osmosis
    diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane
  6. osteoporosis
    abnormal loss of bony tissue due to a lack of calcium
  7. necrosis
    the localized death of living cells
  8. scoliosis
    an abnormal lateral curve of the spine
  9. mitosis
    the process by which a cell divides into two new cells
  10. meiosis
    cell division that produces reproductive cells
  11. zoonosis
    an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans
Created on Thu Apr 02 16:18:25 EDT 2026 (updated Thu Apr 02 16:23:37 EDT 2026)

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