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Indigo complete Terminology Review
| aden/o | gland |
| fat | adip/o |
| albin/o | white |
| cancer | carcin/o |
| chlor/o | green |
| colour | chrom/o |
| chem/o | chemical/drug |
| crypt/o | hidden |
| cold | cry/o |
| skin | cutane/o |
| dermat/o derm/o | skin |
| scab | eschar/o |
| hidr/o | sweat |
| ichthy/o | dry, scaly |
| kerat/o | horny tissue, hard, cornea |
| lipid/o | fat |
| fat | lip/o |
| mamm/o | breast |
| breast | mast/o |
| melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus |
| death, necrosis | necr/o |
| nid/o | nest |
| onc/o | tumor |
| onych/o | nail |
| lice | pedicul/o |
| hair | pil/o |
| py/o | pus |
| wrinkle | rhytid/o |
| scler/o | hardening sclera (white of eye) |
| seb/o | sebum, sebacous |
| squam/o | scale |
| steat/o | fat |
| sweat | sudor/o |
| thel/o | nipple |
| tox/o | poison |
| trich/o | hair |
| nail | ungu/o |
| xen/o | foreign, strange |
| xer/o | dry |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -cyte | cell |
| skin | -derma |
| excision, removal | -ectomy |
| -esis | condition |
| -graft | transplantation |
| -ia | pertaining to |
| pertaining to | -ic |
| -is | noun ending |
| -ia | condition |
| -ism | condition |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| study of | -logy |
| softening | -malacia |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -ous | pertaining to |
| disease | -pathy |
| -penia | decrease |
| carry, transmission | -phoresis |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -poieses | formation, production |
| bursting forth | -rrhagia |
| suture | -rrhaphy |
| discharge, floe | -rrhea |
| rupture | -rrhexis |
| -therapy | treatment |
| a-, an- | without, not |
| dia- | through, across |
| epi- | above, upon |
| hetero- | different |
| same | -homo |
| excessive, above normal | -hyper |
| under, below, defficient | hypo- |
| pachy- | thick |
| peri- | around |
| sub- | under, below |
| BCC | basal cell carcinoma |
| bx, Bx | biopsy |
| C&S | culture and sensivity |
| CA | cancer |
| chemo | chemotherapy |
| CIS | carcinoma in situ |
| cm | centimeter |
| dc, d/c | discharge |
| Decub. | decubitus |
| derm. | dermatology |
| FS | frozen section |
| H2O | water |
| incision and draingae | I&D |
| ID | intradermal |
| IMP | impression |
| IV | intrevenous |
| T&A | tonsillectomy and adnoidectomy |
| TMN | tumor-node-metastasis |
| ung | ointment |
| xeroderma pigmentosum | XP, XPD |