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Medical Term Ch 5
Integumentary System - Combining Forms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adip/o; lip/o; steat/o | fat |
| cutane/o; dermat/o; derm/o | skin |
| hidr/o; sudor/o | sweat |
| ichty/o | dry, scaly |
| kerat/o | hard, horny tissue, cornea |
| melan/o | black |
| myc/o | fungus, fungi (plural) |
| onych/o; ungu/o | nail |
| pil/o; trich/o | hair |
| scler/o | hardening |
| seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
| squam/o | scale |
| xen/o | foreign, strange |
| xer/o | dry |
| cyte | cell |
| logist | specialist in the study of |
| logy | study of |
| therapy | treatment |
| a, an | without, not |
| dia, trans | through, across |
| epi- | above, upon |
| homo- | same |
| hyper- | excessive, above normal |
| sub, infra | under, below |