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-ism medical definition

suffix
  1. Action, process; practice: vegetarianism.
  2. Characteristic behavior or quality: puerilism.
  3. State; condition; quality: senilism.
  4. State or condition resulting from an excess of something specified: strychninism.
  5. Doctrine; theory; system of principles: Darwinism.

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