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Likely from dys- (“wrong, irregular”) + -o- + -mer (“chemical-forming suffix”) + -ia (“disease-forming suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Likely from dys- (“wrong, irregular”) + -o- + -mer (“chemical-forming suffix”) + -ia (“disease-forming suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.