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Integumentary system
Medical Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adip/o | fat |
| lip/o | fat |
| steat/o | fat |
| cutane/o | skin |
| dermat/o | skin |
| derm/o | skin |
| hidr/o | sweat |
| sudor/o | sweat |
| ichthy/o | dry, scaly |
| kerat/o | horny tissue, hard, cornea |
| myc/o | fungus |
| onych/o | nail |
| ungu/o | nail |
| pil/o | hair |
| trich/o | hair |
| scler/o | hardening, sclera (white of the eyes) |
| seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
| squam/o | scale |
| xen/o | foreign, stange |
| xer/o | dry |
| Bowen disease | very early form of skin cancer |
| chloasma | pigmentary skin discoloration |
| comedo | small skin lesion of acne |
| impetigo | bacterial skin infection |
| pediculosis | infestation with lice |
| pruritus | intense itching |
| tinea | fungal skin infection (ringworm) |
| verruca | epidermal virus growth (wart) |
| patch | allergy test using patches |
| scratch | allergy test by scratching the skin |
| fulguration | tissue destruction using high-frequency electric current |
| BCC | basal cell carcinoma |
| C&S | culture and sensitivity |
| CA | cancer, chronological age, cardiac arrest |
| FS | frozen section |
| ID | intradermal |
| I&D | incision and drainage |
| IMP | impression (synonymous with diagnosis) |
| IV | intravenous |
| TNM | tumor-node-metastasis |
| ung | ointment |
| XP, XDP | xeroderma pigmentosum |