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Integumentary System
Medical Terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fat | Adip/o Lip/o Steat/o |
| Lip/ Oma | Fatty Mass/ Tumor |
| Steatosis | Fat Condition |
| Skin | Cutane/o Derm/o Dermat/o |
| Epidermal | Pertaining to above the skin |
| Hair | Pil/o Trich/o |
| Atrichosis | Condition of not having hair |
| Piloid | Resemble hair |
| Scale | Squam/o |
| Squamous | Pertaining to a scale |
| Hidr/o | Sweat |
| Hyper/ Hidr/ Osis | Condition of excessive sweating |
| Nail | Onych/o Ungu/o |
| Subungual | Pertaining to underneath the nail |
| Onycalgia | Nail pain |
| Oil | Seb/o Sebace/o |
| Pilosebaceous | Pertaining oil in the hair follicle |
| Sebolithstone oil (lith/o/tripsy) | Crushing of stone |
| Hidden | Crypt/o Occult |
| Onychocryptosis | Condition of a hidden nail |
| Hard/ Horny | Kerat/o |
| Keratoderma | Hard skin |
| Xer/o | Dry |
| Xeroderma | Dry skin |
| Xanth/o | Yellow |
| Xanthoderma | Yellow skin |
| Red | Erythr/o Rubi/o |
| Blue | Cyan |
| Erythrocyte | Red blood cell |
| White | Leuk/o Alb/o |
| Leukocyte | White blood cell |
| Albinism | Condition of abnormal white skin |
| Black | Melan/o |
| Melanosis | condition of black skin Hyperpigmentation |