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Question | Answer |
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adip/o | fat |
albin/o | white |
caus/o | burn, burning |
cauter/o | heat, burn |
cutane/o | skin |
dermo/o, dermat/o | skin |
diaphor/o | profuse sweating |
erythem/o, erythermat/o | redness |
hidr/o | sweat |
ichthy/o | dry, scaly(fish-like) |
kerat/o | hard |
leuk/o | white |
lip/o | fat |
melan/o | black |
myc/o | fungus (fungi) includes yeasts, molds & mushrooms |
onych/o | nail |
phyt/o | plant |
pil/o | hair, hair follicle |
py/o | pus |
rhytid/o | wrinkle |
seb/o | sebum (oily secretion from sebaceous glands) |
squam/o | scale-like |
steat/o | fat |
trich/o | hair, hair follicle |
ungu/o | nail |
xanth/o | yellow |
xer/o | dry |