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.
-al 1. a suffix with the general sense âof the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character ofâ that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usu. with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal).