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Integumentary_CF
chapter 3_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 |
| melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus(plural, fungi) |
| onych/o | nail |
| pil/o | hair |
| trich/o | hair |
| scler/o | hardening; sclera (white of eye) |
| seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
| squam/o | scale |
| xer/o | dry |
| -derma | skin |
| -oid | resembling |
| -phoresis | carrying, transmission |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -therapy | treatment |
| sudoriferous | sweat glands |
| comedos | blackheads |
| pustules | whiteheads |
| sebaceous | oil-secreting glands |
| aden | gland |
| sarc/o | flesh (connective tissue) |
| necr/o | death |
| auto- | self,own |
| graft | tissue transplanted or implanted in a part of the body to repair a defect. |