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Medical Terminology
Integumentary & Digestive Terms: Skin Hair Sweat Glands Nails
Root | Definition/Med Term |
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CUTIS | SKIN (CUTITIS: SKIN INFLAMMATION) |
DENT | TEETH (DENTIFORM: TOOTHLIKE) |
DERMA | SKIN (DERMATOLOGY: SKIN, STUDY OF) |
HAPSIA | TOUCH (PARAPSIA: TOUCH DISORDER) |
ODONT | TEETH (ODONTOPRISIS: TEETH GRINDING) |
ONCO | TUMOR (ONCOLOGY: TUMORS, STUDY OF) |
ONYCHIA | NAIL BEDS (ONYCHITIS: NAIL BEDS INFLAMMATION) |
PEDICULAR | LICE (PEDICULOSIS: LICE, CONDITION OF) |
PRURIGO | ITCHING (PRURITIS: ITCHING INFLAMMATION) |
PSORA | ITCH (PSORIASIS: ITCH, CONDITION OF) |
SARCO | FLESH (SARCOLYSIS: FLESH DECOMPOSING) |
SCLERO | HARD (SCLEROGENOUS: HARDENING TISSUE) |
SQUAMA | SCALY (SQUAMOUS: SCALELIKE) |
TRICHO | HAIR (TRICHOID: HAIRLIKE) |
CHOLE | BILE; GALLBLADDER (CHOLECYSTECTOMY: GALLBLADDER EXCISION |
COLON | LARGE INTESTINE (COLITIS: LARGE INTESTINE INFLAMMATION) |
EMESIS | VOMITING (EMETIC: PRODUCES VOMIT) |
ENTERO | INTESTINE (ENTERITIS: INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION) |
GASTRO | STOMACH (GASTRITIS: STOMACH INFLAMMATION) |
GLOSSO | TONGUE (GLOSSOPATHY: TONGUE DISEASE) |
HEPAT | LIVER (HEPATITIS: LIVER INFLAMMATION) |
ILE | ILEUM; LAST 3 SECTIONS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE (ILEITIS: ILEUM INFLAMMATION) |
LAPARO | ABDOMEN (LAPAROTOMY: ABDOMEN INCISION) |
MYXO | MUCUS (MYXOMA: MUCUS TUMOR) |
PROCTO | ANUS, RECTUM (PROCTOLOGY: STUDY OF DISEASES OF THE COLON, ANUS, RECTUM) |
PYLORO | PYLORUS: holds food in the stomach until it is adequately digested and ready to enter the small intestines; GATEKEEPER (PYLOROSTENOSIS: PYLORIC NARROWING) |
STOMA | OPENING; MOUTH in reference to an artificial opening, like a surgical opening such as the stoma of a colostomy (STOMATITIS: MOUTH INFLAMMATION) |
VISCERO | BODY ORGANS (VISCEROMEGALY: ENLARGED ABDOMINAL ORGANS) |