VOCABULARY: words ending in OSIS

Continuing with my pre-sleep activities, I'd been thinking about words ending in OSIS but could remember only a frustrating few such as psychosis, neurosis, mitosis, meiosis and kurtosis. I knew there must be many more. A search of THE FREE DICTIONARY led to the following:

• A: atherosclerosis (a disease in which plaque builds up inside your arteries. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to your heart and other parts of your body. Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other substances found in the blood. Over time, plaque hardens and narrows your arteries); ankylosis (abnormal stiffening and immobility of a joint due to fusion of the bones); asbestosis (a chronic inflammatory and scarring disease affecting the tissue of the lungs. People with the condition may experience severe shortness of breath and are at an increased risk for certain cancers, including lung cancer and, less commonly, mesothelioma); apotheosis.
  
• B: brucellosis (a bacterial infection that affects thousands of people worldwide. Avoiding unpasteurised dairy products and taking precautions when working with animals or in a laboratory can help prevent brucellosis; symptoms may include joint and muscle pain, fever, weight loss and fatigue; some people develop stomach pain and cough; treatment includes antibiotics; relapses are common).
  
• C: cyanosis (the bluish or purplish discolouration of the skin or mucous membranes due to the tissues near the skin surface having low oxygen saturation); cirrhosis (a condition in which the liver does not function properly due to long-term damage. This damage is characterised by the replacement of normal liver tissue by scar tissue; cirrhosis is most commonly caused by alcohol, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease).
  
• D: diagnosis; dermatosis (a broad term that refers to any disease of the skin, especially one that is not accompanied by inflammation e.g. dermatosis papulosa nigra (DPNs) are very common benign brown warty papules that appear in African Americans and other patients with dark skin phototypes; DPNs usually affect the cheeks, neck, and upper chest); diverticulosis.
  
• E: endometriosis (a condition whereby the tissue from the inside of the womb is growing outside of it)
  
• F: fibrosis (the formation of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ or tissue in a reparative or reactive process. This can be a reactive, benign, or pathological state. In response to injury, this is called scarring, and if fibrosis arises from a single cell line, this is called a fibroma); fluorosis (dental fluorosis, also termed mottled enamel, is an extremely common disorder, characterised by hypomineralisation of tooth enamel caused by ingestion of excessive fluoride during enamel formation).
  
• G: gnosis
  
• H: halitosis; hypnosis
  
• I: immunodiagnosis
• J: none known
  
• K: keratosis (solar keratosis or actinic keratosis, also commonly known as sunspots, are rough, red, scaly, or crusty spots on the skin that are caused by excessive exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation (UVR) from the sun. They are more common on sun-exposed areas, such as the face, nose, ears, chest, forearms, and back of the hands); kurtosis (the sharpness of the peak of a frequency-distribution curve).
  
• L: listeriosis (an illness usually caused by eating foods contaminated with the bacteria known as Listeria monocytogenes. Listeriosis is a serious disease in pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems. Infection is treated with antibiotics); leucosis (avian sarcoma leukosis virus is an endogenous retrovirus that infects and can lead to cancer in chickens; experimentally it can infect other species of birds and mammals)
  
• M: miosis (a process where a single cell divides into two identical daughter cells); meiosis (a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information. These cells are sex cells – sperm in males, eggs in females); metempsychosis (the supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species); metamorphosis; mononucleosis (infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV, human herpesvirus 4, HHV-4) in which there is an increase of white blood cells that have a single nucleus (monocytes), the infection can be spread by saliva, also known as mono, the kissing disease); misdiagnosis; myxomatosis
  
• N: necrosis; neurosis; narcosis (a state of stupor, drowsiness, or unconsciousness produced by drugs)
  
• O: osteoporosis; osmosis
  
• P: psychoneurosis; psychosis; prognosis; pediculosis (infestation with lice)
  
• Q: none known
  
• R: none known
  
• S: scoliosis; silicosis
  
• T: toxoplasmosis; tuberculosis; trichinosis (a disease resulting from infestation with Trichinella spiralis, occurring in humans, caused by ingestion of infested, undercooked pork, and characterised by fever, muscle weakness, and diarrhea); thrombosis
  
• U: none known
  
• V: varicosis (any condition characterised by distension of the veins); virosis (infection with a virus)
  
• W: whoosis (an object or person whose name is not known or cannot be recalled)
  
• X: xerosis (abnormal dryness, as of the eye or skin)
  
• Y: none known
  
• Z: zoonosis (any disease of animals communicable to humans); zygosis (the union of two gametes; conjugation); zymosis (any infectious disease; the development process or spread of such a disease)