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Integumentary system
Medical Terminology
Question | Answer |
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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 |