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• -oma

  plural -omas, -omata. a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base: fibroma; melanoma. -oma combining form indicating a tumour carcinoma word origin from greek -ōma -oma from gk. -oma, from -ma, suffix forming neuter nouns; especially taken in medical use as “marked growth, tumor.” -oma suff. tumor: […]

• -omas

  plural -omas, -omata. a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base: fibroma; melanoma. -oma combining form indicating a tumour carcinoma word origin from greek -ōma -oma from gk. -oma, from -ma, suffix forming neuter nouns; especially taken in medical use as “marked growth, tumor.” -oma suff. tumor: […]

• -omata

  plural -omas, -omata. a noun suffix used to form names of tumors, of the kind specified by the base: fibroma; melanoma. -oma combining form indicating a tumour carcinoma word origin from greek -ōma -oma from gk. -oma, from -ma, suffix forming neuter nouns; especially taken in medical use as “marked growth, tumor.” -oma suff. tumor: […]

• -ome

  combining form denoting a m-ss or part of a specified kind rhizome word origin variant of -oma

• -on

  a suffix used in the names of subatomic particles (gluon; meson; neutron), quanta (graviton), and other minimal ent-ties or components (cistron; codon; magneton; photon). -on2 a suffix used in the naming of inert gaseous elements: neon. origin -on suffix indicating a chemical substance interferon, parathion (in physics) indicating an elementary particle or quantum electron, photon […]

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