Medical Terminology / Unit 6 MedTerm 0358 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-porosis: Porous Condition
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The idea
The suffix porosis names an abnormal condition of becoming porous.
In practice
Osteoporosis is an abnormal condition of porous bone.
Where people slip
Porous means full of small spaces. It is a change in structure, not in size.
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