Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0080 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-cytosis: Increase in Cells
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The idea
The suffix cytosis names an abnormal increase in the cells its root identifies.
In practice
Leukocytosis is an increase in white blood cells.
Where people slip
Cytosis and penia are opposites, and both attach to the same roots.
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