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Open Source Information System The Open Source Information System (OSIS) is the former name of an American unclassified network serving the U.S. intelligence community with open source intelligence. Since mid-2006, the content of OSIS is now known as Intelink-U while the networ ...

Open Scripture Information Standard Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS) is an XML application (or schema), that defines tags for marking up Bibles, theological commentaries, and other related literature. Description The schema is very similar to that of the Text Encoding ...

* ''Organisasi Siswa Intra Sekolah'', Indonesian for Intra-school students organization ;-osis The suffix ''

-osis OSIS or ''variant'' may refer to: ;OSIS * Open Source Information System * Open Scripture Information Standard * ''Organisasi Siswa Intra Sekolah'', Indonesian for Intra-school students organization ;-osis The suffix ''wikt:-osis, -osis'' is used ...

'' is used for forming a number of medical terms. The suffix itself signifies only a general functional disorder, but the constructed words are more specific. It is often used to denote a biological process (i.e.

Apoptosis Apoptosis (from grc, ἀπόπτωσις, apóptōsis, 'falling off') is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. These changes incl ...

Phagocytosis Phagocytosis () is the process by which a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf a large particle (≥ 0.5 μm), giving rise to an internal compartment called the phagosome. It is one type of endocytosis. A cell that performs phagocytosis is ...

Necrosis Necrosis () is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, or trauma which result in the unregulated dige ...

...) ;Osis Osis (feminine: Ose), is a

Latvian language Latvian ( ), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as ...

surname meaning "

ash Ash or ashes are the solid remnants of fires. Specifically, ''ash'' refers to all non-aqueous, non- gaseous residues that remain after something burns. In analytical chemistry, to analyse the mineral and metal content of chemical samples, ash ...

" (tree; ''Fraxinus excelsior'') *

Guntis Osis Guntis Osis (born 30 October 1962 in Talsi) is a Latvian Soviet bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s. He won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western ...

(born 1962), Soviet Latvian bobsledder *

Karlis Osis Karlis Osis (26 December 1917 – 26 December 1997) was a Latvian-born parapsychologist who specialised in exploring deathbed phenomena and life after death. Biography Karlis' first research, conducted in the 1940s, was inspired by the wo ...

(1917–1997), paranormal researcher

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