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Med Express 3
Medical Terminology Express Chapter 3 Integumentary System
Term | Definition |
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epi- | upon |
dermis- | skin |
sub- | under |
cyt- | cell |
cutane/o | skin |
dermat/o | skin |
derm/o | skin |
adip/o | fat |
lip/o | fat |
steat/o | fat |
hidr/o | sweat |
sudor/o | sweat |
ichthy/o | dry, scaly |
cyan/o | blue |
melan/o | black |
kerat/o | horny tissue; hard; cornea |
myc/o | fungus |
onych/o | nail |
pil/o | hair |
trich/o | hair |
scler/o | hardening, sclera (white of eye) |
seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
squam/o | scale |
leuk/o | white |
erythr/o | red |
-derma | skin |
-oid | like, resembling |
-phoresis | carrying; transmission |
-plasty | surgical repair |
softening of the nails | onych/o/malacia |
malacia | softening |
treatment with cold | cry/o/therapy |
cry/o | cold |
discharge or flow of sebum | seb/o/rrhea |
pertaining to under the skin | sub/cutane/ous |
abnormal condition of blue (skin) | cyan/osis |
condition of sweat | sudor/esis |
tumor of the nail or nail bed | onych/oma |
white cell | leuk/o/cyte |
black cell | melan/o/cyte |
skin that is dry | xer/o/derma |
xer/o | dry |
transplantation of same (species) | homo/graft or allo/graft |
transplantation | -graft |
tumor composed of cancer | carcin/oma |
skin (condition associated) with pus | py/o/derma |
py/o | pus |
discharge or flow of sebum | seb/o/rrhea |
treatment with cold | cry/o/therapy |
inflammation of the skin | dermat/itis |
instrument to cut skin | dermat/ome |
tumor (consisting of) fat | adip/oma lip/oma steat/oma |
excision or removal of a nail | onych/ectomy |
skin that is blue | cyan/o/derma |
surgical repair of the skin | dermat/o/plasty |