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Body Structure Terms
NHTC 5 Body Structure Terms
Term | Meaning |
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adip/o | fat |
lip/o | fat |
cutane/o | skin |
derm/o | skin |
dermat/o | skin |
hidr/o | sweat |
sudor/o | sweat |
histi/o | tissue |
hist/o | tissue |
ichthy/o | dry, scaly (fishlike) |
kerat/o | horny tissue, hard, cornea |
myc/o | fungus (plural fungi) |
onych/o | nail |
ungu/o | nail |
pil/o | hair |
trich/o | hair |
scler/o | hardning, sclera |
seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
squam/o | scale |
xer/o | dry |
albin/o | white |
leuk/o | white |
cirrh/o | yellow |
jaund/o | yellow |
xanth/o | yellow |
cyan/o | blue |
erythem/o | red |
erythemat/o | red |
erythr/o | red |
melan/o | black |
an- | without, not |
dia- | through, across |
epi- | above, upon |
hyper- | excessive, above normal |
hypo- | under, below |
sub- | under, below |
-derma | skin |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
-oid | resembling |
-pathy | disease |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-tome | instrument to cut |
-itis | inflammation |
myc | fungus |
-osis | abnormal condition |
hyper- | excessive, above normal |
hidr | sweat |
-oma | tumor |
onych | nail |
-ia | condition |
pedicul | a louse |
-rrhea | discharge, flow |
intra- | in, within |
cryo | cold |
lip | fat |
-ectomy | excision, removal |
rhytido | wrinkle |
-plasty | surgical repair |
auto | self, own |
homo | same |
hetero | different |
xeno | foreign, strange |