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Integumentary System
Medical Word Elements
Term | Definition |
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adip/o | fat |
lip/o | fat |
steat/o | fat |
cutane/o | skin |
dermat/o | skin |
derm/o | skin |
hidr/o | sweat |
sudor/o | sweat |
ichthy/o | dry,scaly |
kerat/o | horny tissue; hard; cornea |
melan/o | black |
myc/o | fungus (plural, fungi) |
onych/o | nail |
ungu/o | nail |
pil/o | hair |
trich/o | hair |
scler/o | hardening; sclera (white of the eye) |
seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
squam/o | scale |
xen/o | foreign, strange |
xer/o | dry |
-cyte | cell |
-derma | skin |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
-therapy | treatment |
an- | without, not |
dia- | through, across |
epi- | above, upon |
homo- | same |
hyper- | excessive, above normal |
sub- | under, below |