Taber's Medical Dictionary
-ous
[Fr. -us, -ous, fr. L. -osus, adj. suffix]
1. Suffix meaning possessing, full of.
2. Suffix meaning pertaining to.
3. Suffix used in chemistry in meaning the lower of two valencies.
SEE: -ic
SEE: 1 -ose
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Venes, Donald, editor. "-ous." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760581/all/_ous.
-ous. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760581/all/_ous. Accessed March 25, 2023.
-ous. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760581/all/_ous
-ous [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 March 25]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760581/all/_ous.
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