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Medical Terminology
Integumentary & Digestive Terms: Skin Hair Sweat Glands Nails
| Root | Definition/Med Term |
|---|---|
| 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) |