-iasis
(Greek > Latin: suffix; a process; a diseased condition)
broncholithiasis
Bronchial inflammation or obstruction caused by broncholiths.
cenurosis, cenuriasis
Disease produced by the presence of a cenuris cyst that, in sheep, causes a brain infection known as "gid" for the giddy gait induced in the infected animal; human cenurosis has been reported but is extremely unusual, in contrast with hydatid disease. Synonym: coenurosis.
chilopodiasis
Invasion of one of the cavities, especially the nasal cavity, by a species of Chilopoda.
cholecystolithiasis
Presence of one or more gallstones in the gallbladder.
choledocholithiasis
Presence of a gallstone in the common bile duct.
cholelithiasis
Presence of concretions in the gallbladder or bile ducts. Synonym: chololithiasis.
coniasis
Dustlike calculi in gallbladder and bile ducts.
cordylobiasis
Infection of man and animals with larvae of flies of the genus Cordylobia. Synonyms: African furuncular myiasis, tumbu dermal myiasis.
dacryolithiasis
1. A condition characterized by the presence of calculi within the lacrimal drainage system.
2. The formation and presence of dacryoliths.
dermatobiasis
Infection of man and animals with larvae of the fly Dermatobia hominis. Synonym: human botfly myiasis.
distichiasis
A congenital, abnormal, additional row of eyelashes.
districhiasis
1. A condition in which two hairs grow from a single follicle.
2. Growth of two hairs in a single follicle.
dysodontiasis
1. Painful, difficult, or delayed eruption of teeth.
2. Painful or difficult dentition.
3. Difficulty or irregularity in the eruption of the teeth.
dysontogenesis
Defective development of an organism; especially, of an embryo.
elephantiasis
Hypertrophy and fibrosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, especially of the lower extremities and genitalia, due to long-standing obstructed lymphatic vessels, most commonly after years of infection by the filarial worms Wuchereria bancrofti or Brugia malayi.
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