Townsend plan. see under Townsend, Francis Everett Townsend, Francis Everett, 1867â1960, American reformer, leader of an old-age pension movement, b. Fairbury, Ill., grad. Univ. of Nebraska medical school, 1903. He practiced medicine in several Western states before he settled (1919) at Long Beach, Calif......
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: - 1 oma(Suffix) A suffix forming nouns indicating disease or morbidity. - 2 oma(Suffix) A suffix forming nouns indicating tumors or masses, especially cancerous ones.
emia: Suffix meaning blood or referring to the presence of a substance in the blood. As for example, anemia (lack of blood) and hypervolemia (too high a volume of blood). The ending -emia is one of the building blocks derived from Greek (in this case) or Latin used to construct medical terms. From the Greek haima blood + -ia. Search MedTerms: