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Integumentary
Medical Terms for the integumentary system
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adip/o, lip/o, steat/o | fat |
| cutane/o, dermat/o, derm/o | skin |
| hidr/o, sudor/o | sweat |
| ichthy/o | dry, scaly |
| kerat/o | horny tissue; hard; cornea |
| melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus |
| onych/o, ungu/o | nail |
| pil/o, trich/o | hair |
| scler/o | hardening; sclera (white of the eye) |
| seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
| squam/o | scale |
| xen/o | foreign, strange |
| xer/o | dry |
| -derma | skin |
| -therapy | treatment |