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(Greek: a suffix that means: state or condition of; diseased condition of)


bradycrotic
Pertaining to, characterized by, or inducing slowness of pulse.
chaotic
1. Lacking a visible order or organization.
2. Completely unordered, unpredictable, and confusing.
3. Completely disordered and out of control.
4. Inherently unpredictable; a description of the state of a system according to chaos theory.
5. Completely confused or disordered; such as, "a chaotic mass of books and papers".
cirrhotic
Relating to or affected with cirrhosis or advanced fibrosis.
dermonecrotic
A reference to any application or illness that may cause necrosis of the skin.
dichotic
Involving or relating to the simultaneous stimulation of each ear with different sounds.
elastotic
Characterized by elastosis or degeneration and fragmentation of elastic fibers.
endotic
Pertaining to the inner ear.
entotic
A reference to the interior of the ear.
enzootic
Afflicting animals; disease restricted to a locality.
euangiotic
Amply supplied with vessels.
exosmotic
A reference to the passage of a fluid through a semipermeable membrane toward a solution of lower concentration, especially the passage of water through a cell membrane into the surrounding medium.
halobiotic
A reference to life in the sea.
hidrotic
Relating to, or inducing, sweating or increased sweating; sudorific or hyperhydrotic.
hypnotic
1. Pertaining to sleep or hypnosis.
2. An agent that causes an insensitivity to pain by inhibiting certain impulses or by inhibiting the reception of sensory impressions in the cortical centers of the brain, thus causing partial or complete unconsciousness.
3. Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

Hypnotics include sedatives, analgesics, anesthetics, and intoxicants, and are sometimes called somnifacients and soporifics when used to induce sleep.

idiochlotic
Peculiar to a particular group of people.

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