OSIS or variant may refer to:
OSIS
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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 netw ...
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Open Scripture Information Standard
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student council
A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research or ...
in Indonesia (''Organisasi Siswa Intra Sekolah'')
-osis
The suffix ''
-osis'' 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 ) is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms and in some eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms such as yeast. Biochemistry, Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (Morphology (biol ...
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Phagocytosis
Phagocytosis () is the process by which a cell (biology), 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 ph ...
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Necrosis
Necrosis () is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis. The term "necrosis" came about in the mid-19th century and is commonly attributed to German pathologist Rudolf Virchow, who i ...
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Osis
Osis (feminine: Ose) is a
Latvian language
Latvian (, ), also known as Lettish, is an East Baltic languages, East Baltic language belonging
to the Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Baltic region, and is the language of the Latvians. It is the official language of Latvia ...
surname meaning "
ash" (tree; ''Fraxinus excelsior'').
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Guntis Osis (born 1962), Soviet Latvian bobsledder
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Karlis Osis
Karlis Osis ( Latvian: ''Kārlis 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 1940 ...
(1917–1997), paranormal researcher
See also
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OSI (disambiguation) for OSIs, the plural of OSI
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Latvian-language masculine surnames