A disease or pathological condition caused by bacterial infection or the presence of bacteria in body tissues.
From 'bacterio-' (bacteria) + '-osis' (from Greek '-osis,' meaning condition or disease), a medical term from the late 19th century for bacterial infections.
The '-osis' suffix in medicine specifically means 'bad condition'—it's how doctors name diseases: necrosis is tissue death, cirrhosis is liver scarring, and bacteriosis is the harmful state of having a bacterial infection.
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